| I attended yesterday's 1PM matinee | |
| Last Edit: seeseveryshow 01:03 am EST 11/21/17 | |
| Posted by: seeseveryshow 12:59 am EST 11/21/17 | |
| In reply to: Who's going 'Home for the Holidays'? ... Doesn't look like too many are - WaymanWong 08:07 pm EST 11/20/17 | |
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| Obviously, a majority of those 3487 who attended last week's five performances were comped. I was among them. The 1PM show lasted exactly 78 minutes, time enough to get to Second Stage for the 3PM TORCH SONG. The ushers said HOLIDAYS was 85 minutes long, and that is correct if measured from the scheduled start time. It gets tedious from the outset, with prolonged arrangements of the two opening numbers. Danny Aiello makes a few (may 3 or 4) short appearances on stage and seems to be reading all of his lines, and song lyrics, from a prompter that is in the orchestra pit. Mr. Aiello wears dark glasses so it his hard to see his eyes. In fairness, he admits that he was never before in a musical on Broadway. How he got mixed up in this is a mystery. He speaks of his poor childhood growing up in Manhattan. There is also an attractive young lady known for some Bachelorette TV show I think, who is sort of a co-host but had very little to do. She fumbled her lines yesterday which provoked audience laughter. She joins the company in singing the finale. The lady singers have three costume changes. They start in blue spangles, move to silver or gold spangles, and end up in red spangles. The performer known as Bianca Ryan was flat out terrible. She didn't enunciate, and didn't sing the correct notes. She also had a distracting habit of repeatedly waving her right arm around (semi hula dance style) and then touching her breast. Mr. Kaufman wore glasses throughout, which strikes me as a puzzling choice for a performer in this type of show. On the other hand, he made no attempt to connect to either the lyrics or the audience, so it didn't matter much that we couldn't see his eyes. Ms. Glover, in glorious voice, was dressed in unflattering costumes. She was given the chore of delivering the cheesy "Welcome New York City" line! The married couple singers (names escape me) came off best, with good voices and some personality. The nine musicians and sound system were fine. I was unfamiliar with several of the holiday songs that were presented and somewhat puzzled why there were, especially for the NY audience, nothing but Christmas songs. The set consists of a platform for the musicians and 6 cutout wooden Christmas trees. If you like these performers and enjoy their vocal pyrotechnics, this show may be for you. |
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