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| re: Diana: The Musical review – a right royal debacle so bad you’ll hyperventilate | |
| Posted by: Hair 12:46 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
| In reply to: Diana: The Musical review – a right royal debacle so bad you’ll hyperventilate - young-walsingham 12:01 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| I remember a PREVIOUS Princess Diana musical that was so DELICIOUSLY awful we would play the CD at parties and just cry from laughter at the inept lyrics and bizarre choices and performances. Then we lucked into a video of a performance of the show and were even more entertained. There was one song where the Queen Mother seduces Prince Philip |
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| re: Diana: The Musical review – a right royal debacle so bad you’ll hyperventilate | |
| Posted by: sf 02:44 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana: The Musical review – a right royal debacle so bad you’ll hyperventilate - Hair 12:46 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| There's one that played somewhere in the midwest - I think in Omaha - and put out a cast recording; it includes a song in which Diana wonders "should I throw up now or later?" | |
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| It’s good writing to have characters relatable to audience | |
| Posted by: dramedy 02:49 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Diana: The Musical review – a right royal debacle so bad you’ll hyperventilate - sf 02:44 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| Who were also wondering if they should throw up now or wait until intermission. | |
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| re: It’s good writing to have characters relatable to audience | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 11:44 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:41 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
| In reply to: It’s good writing to have characters relatable to audience - dramedy 02:49 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| I made it through act one tonight. I can’t believe some of the comments below. Kaye and Erin Davie are doing some heavy lifting here. It’s just relentless in its desire to join the sung-through catalogue, the pervasive mostly tuneless recitative banal and literal. I can’t imagine a workshop inspiring this investment. | |
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| In further praise of Erin Davie | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 07:46 am EDT 10/02/21 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:42 am EDT 10/02/21 | |
| In reply to: re: It’s good writing to have characters relatable to audience - Delvino 11:41 pm EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| Davie was wonderful in Grey Gardens, and a vulnerable, heartbreaking Violet in the Side Show revisal. With Diana, it's clear she's one of Broadway's most valuable players. Watch how she miraculously makes Parker-Bowles a dimensional human being, every moment of stage time filled, creating a layered woman with ambiguous feelings about her role in this doomed marriage -- that foregone conclusion leeching the drama out of attempts at emotional suspense; yet Davie offers a point of view that raises new questions. About 2/3 through act one, she seemed capable of turning the show into a musical called Camilla, a la Wicked refocusing on others in Oz. That's not glib; Davie damn near commandeers the narrative. I'll be curious to see what she does with the second act, which many claim is far better. It's a terrific opportunity to focus on this gifted singing actor. I hope this performance leads to another project. I can see Davie as a Fosca someday, to think of but one role. | |
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