| LEMPICKA Tonight | |
| Last Edit: sergius 12:00 am EDT 04/06/24 | |
| Posted by: sergius 11:56 pm EDT 04/05/24 | |
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| Perfunctory and shallow. LEMPICKA means to be a serious depiction of the life and work of Tamara de Lempicka, but it’s more plausible as an amalgam of The Voice and a Studio 54 floor show about—gasp!—bisexuality. It’s entirely a mess. The score is largely indistinct, a wash of thumping excess. It’s emotionally bombastic and unconvincing. Additionally, it doesn’t remotely evoke the period. But it pairs neatly with the book which is similarly stupefying and consistently misses no chance to substitute cliche for characterization. Everyone on stage is working hard to put this dross over, but it’s like they’re writing the show as they go along. And none are helped by the direction which is about as haphazard and incoherent as it gets. Finally, the choreography is plainly, sometimes laughably, bad. Everyone’s sucking in their cheeks to look cool or wicked—or something—while they move, move, move (always inaptly) as if they’re beneath some invisible mirrored ball. Top to bottom, LEMPICKA, which I was looking forward to, is a head scratcher. | |
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