| re: THE LIFE Tonight |
| Last Edit: mikem 11:42 pm EDT 03/20/22 |
| Posted by: mikem 11:26 pm EDT 03/20/22 |
| In reply to: THE LIFE Tonight - sergius 10:38 pm EDT 03/20/22 |
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(spoilers, not that it matters because the run is over and I can't imagine this version being produced again)
I saw the show this afternoon and agree with everything Sergius wrote. When previous attendees had said there was speechifying, I didn't realize that meant actual speeches where characters essentially step out of the show to declaim about whatever it is that Billy Porter thinks needs to be lectured about. At my performance, when the actress playing Queen started on the "I am a Black trans woman who is in danger every day in America" speech after she shot the gun, it was such clumsy writing and so out of place dramatically (who exactly is she talking to? Not the only other person in that scene) that some people around me started laughing. The same thing happened at the top of the second act.
A fine cast (it's not them).
I have certainly heard some doozies of a lyric now and then, but this was some of the most amateurish writing/directing I have ever experienced at a Broadway-caliber production. As with the reports on The Tap Dance Kid, it seems like there is no one in the rehearsal room who is going to provide that counterbalance so that the room isn't an echo chamber. |
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