| re: it does hold up as a show, not as a ticket-seller | |
| Posted by: simbo 04:26 pm EDT 08/14/24 | |
| In reply to: re: it does hold up as a show, not as a ticket-seller - Chazwaza 05:07 am EDT 08/13/24 | |
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| Having listened to a cast recording recently (the Australian Reg Livermore cast album), it's a great set of songs but it's not a great show - it tends to feel like a series of bits (here's the museum bit, here's the Joyce Heth bit, here's the Tom Thumb bit, here's the Jenny Lind bit) rather than a coherent narrative. And Charity Barnum comes across as a drag on the show - her entire role in the show is basically to be against it having production numbers. The "Black and White" section in the second act drags the momentum considerably. Reg, incidentally, writes about the show on his website: "What I later discovered is that for the actor it´s a letdown. Beyond the first twenty minutes, the time it takes to introduce the main characters, there is scarce dramatic development; the script is minimal, and then abandoned completely as the show goes into musical overdrive; there is always a strong sense of jukebox, of pressing buttons, of being on automatic. It´s the songs that drive the action and for an actor who´s into exploring characterization and wringing out a couple of good speeches there can only be disappointment: eventually boredom." https://reglivermore.com/musicals_barnum.html Which is not to say that "greatest showman" is particularly better. |
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