Meanwhile, this Fiasco show is less musically accomplished....
I can't, for the life of me, understand this kind of excuse. It's a musical. It needs to sound good. There are other things that need to be good about it too, but I don't see the point of a musical that doesn't sound musically accomplished. They could have done the Kaufman and Hart play, after all.
If you're seeing a complex, verbose play, and it's clear that none of the actors are skilled in speaking their lines, would you give them the benefit of the doubt because the show was "narratively and visually clear and very heartfelt and elegantly executed"? No, I think you'd leave after intermission if there was one. |
