| re: JELLY'S LAST JAM last night | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:07 pm EST 02/25/24 | |
| In reply to: JELLY'S LAST JAM last night - student_rush 11:54 am EST 02/25/24 | |
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| Surprised to hear that some folks felt it dragged in spots and was even sometimes boring. I didn't see this production / concert, but I saw the Broadway production at the end of its run, with replacements Brian Stokes Mitchell (who at least some critics felt was not as effective as Gregory Hines had been), Phyllicia Rashad and Ben Vereen, and I don't remember feeling it dragged at all. I didn't love it, but I liked it a good deal. I don't know to what degree the script was edited and cut for Encores! but if there was substantial editing and cutting, I wonder if that might have been the problem. That may sound counterintuitive, but I do think cutting sometimes causes real problems. It's fairly often been said that if you make big cuts in Wagner, the operas feel longer, not shorter, because things fail to make sense. A friend who saw the last Encores! Fiorello was mystified by one scene until he went home and read the script. When things fail to make sense, they can feel like they're dragging. You may get bored because you can't really follow what's going on. |
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