| re: It is an epidemic in the West End as well.... | |
| Posted by: sf 12:37 pm EDT 04/26/24 | |
| In reply to: re: It is an epidemic in the West End as well.... - bway1430 11:50 am EDT 04/26/24 | |
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| I thought One To Seventeen - the mother's number - was just about the best song in the show, and Linzi Hateley did as much as she possibly could with it, but being the best song in this particular show is not a high bar. And it wasn't set up well and it didn't land as powerfully as it should have. It was, though, almost the only moment in the show where the writing team didn't seem terrified of engaging with complex emotional territory. And even there, they didn't dig deep enough. I can see why they wanted to give Henry's mother a big statement at that point in the plot, but yes, it was holed below the waterline by the fact that the family, up until that point, had been little more than generic cut-outs. It's a shame, because they were trying to do something very worthwhile. I thought they completely succeeded with only one character - Amy Trigg as the physiotherapist (and she more than deserved her Olivier, she gave a brilliantly sharp performance in a show that mostly didn't work), but there's *so* much potential in the source material and the writers mostly ignored it in favour of generic, synthetic uplift. |
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