I have mixed/leaning negative feelings that about this revival, including its iteration in London with Sheridan Smith. I think Michael Mayer's leaden, frequently joyless direction exacerbates the problems in the text, and Harvey Fierstein's revisions did little to address them, often trying to fix the wrong aspects of the libretto....
...And in the best possible way, the entire cast, Feldstein included, fed off of it and delivered the best Mayer/Fierstein Funny Girl I've seen.
Seems like damning with very faint praise, if you ask me. (I know you didn't.) And what - you saw the show all of two times? |
