To be fair - no - not one definitive reason. I don't love Christian Borle - though I have enjoyed him in a few things (FALSETTOS). I miss shows with actually sets - everything I have seen seems to indicate this is played in some sort of nebulous. art-deco box. I don't know - just stating that I feel that I should be more excited than I am but I am not. I have also been burned by so many of these film to stage adaptions of late
The Pask sets are lovely and ever changing; Barnes’s costumes are among his best, evocative as Hollywood glamor yet grounded when verisimilitude is required. The budget is all on view; the audience is privy to a built world, MGM and Broadway. No one is cheated.
