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| re: Working is a success at City Center | |
| Posted by: bsonarts 02:12 pm EDT 06/27/19 | |
| In reply to: Working is a success at City Center - huskyital 11:16 am EDT 06/27/19 | |
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| I found it a truly mediocre work. The voices were a mixed bag ranging from very good to "having trouble." The addition of the City Center workers stories was a nice touch. But as a musical, few of the songs are engaging. It's tough to find "hummable songs" that talk about work and the narrative style of the music gets tiring -- I know this show has its "lovers." One very bright spot was the wonderful choreography during the show's first 30 minutes -- some of the best I have seen On- and Off-Broadway. For some strange reason, there was virtually no outright dancing for the following 60 minutes (did they run out of rehearsal time?). | |
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| re: Working is a success at City Center | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 02:30 pm EDT 06/27/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Working is a success at City Center - bsonarts 02:12 pm EDT 06/27/19 | |
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| One very bright spot was the wonderful choreography during the show's first 30 minutes -- some of the best I have seen On- and Off-Broadway. For some strange reason, there was virtually no outright dancing for the following 60 minutes (did they run out of rehearsal time?). In the production I did recently, I think the only number in the latter half of the show that really was fully choreographed was "Cleanin' Women." In the earlier portion of the show, the opening number was a combination of choreo and musical staging, "Delivery" was fully choreographed, and "Brother Trucker" was as well. "It's An Art" had some true dance moments but was more stylized musical staging in general. And "Millwork" relied more on the mimed actions of the factory work, though our choreographer did some nice shaping along with that. If I'm correct that "Lovin' Al" was added back in (it was cut for the 2012 version that clearly formed the basis for the Encores production), that number would certainly lend itself to dance as well. But again, I assume that was done early on in the show if it was indeed done. So I'd say that maybe they did run out of time to do "Cleanin' Women?" Otherwise, you're pretty much right that, as written, the obvious places for dance are earlier in the show. |
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