Hello, Dolly! Tour reviews. Aug 25
2019, 05:09:56 PM
Crazy how much better the show is with the touring cast. Saw it in Boston today.
Maybe Zaks toned down the Broadway cast.
The tour cast is running on high energy with breakneck pacing (which works for this show - you dont want to think too much about what’s really going on) and impeccable comic timing. Lewis Stadlen is a national treasure. The last of a dying vaudeville taught breed. Every line is hysterical. Nic Rouleau captures that naive and slightly strange aspect of Corn
Gotta agree with AADA81 - the music is rather snoozy. Same way I felt in the theatre. Everything started sounding the same and I got bored pretty quickly.
Alex Kulak2 said: "Skip23 said: "Alex Kulak2 said: "Of course, not all composers have to be great singers(just like how not all playwrights have to be great actors), but there are some songwriters that I find myself preferring their versions of their songs over other singers/actors.
Jason Robert Brown has a really nice bluesy quality to his voice, and he's probably my favorite composer's singing voice. What are some of your favorites?"
Alex Kulak2 said: "Of course, not all composers have to be great singers(just like how not all playwrights have to be great actors), but there are some songwriters that I find myself preferring their versions of their songs over other singers/actors.
Jason Robert Brown has a really nice bluesy quality to his voice, and he's probably my favorite composer's singing voice. What are some of your favorites?"
JBroadway said: "It’s interesting to me that a lot of people in this thread have said that this production is better than the original, while mainly pointing to the two lead performance as the reason.
I totally believe that this production is better, and I also believe that the lead performances were better. But has anyone brought up the fact that original production was directed by his majesty the King of Dullness, John Doyle? While I didn’t see that productio
And Hadestown is another director’s watered down Greek myth. Bland and filled with empty, visual gimmicks and ramped up musical moments that fall flat after about 15 min.
Well, RENT was never fully developed, so Mimi could have, or NOT have AIDS. I mean, she makes a miraculous recovery from whatever it is she had, so...anything seems to go.
