I saw an early preview (though there had already been plenty of hair-on-fire criticism) and thought it was wildly entertaining. One of my top ten "so happy I got to see this" productions. And that score! One of my favorite Yazbek scores, though I pretty much love them all.
I do think a tryout or two would have helped greatly, and, though I thought the cast did a fine job (I didn't think of Scott as being low-energy at all), it could have been phenomenal with casting that reflected the Spanish setting, as the film of course did. It felt wrong even then, and a decade+ later, things would be very different (think of a crossover for Banderas). |
