Yes! Thank you! Such a disappointing show... *************** "The problem is that you feel these colorful visions are being thrust not just upon the audience but also upon Edward. It’s as if the contents of an immense toy chest had been emptied on top of him, when you need to believe that it’s his imagination that summons these gaudy phantoms into existence. Yes, there’s plenty of theatrical cleverness in how these ingredients are arranged. But it’s as if some cosmic Florenz Ziegfeld is the one doing the arranging, not an Everyman Walter Mitty from Dixie. "Don’t blame Mr. Butz, who is as good as anyone around at building complete characters in musicals. Playing Edward at various ages (in Mr. Burton’s movie Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney divided the role), Mr. Butz is forced to coast on his charm, while scenery happens around him, bringing to mind an affable Disney World guide who has discovered he is not the main attraction. "He’s a fine instinctive, athletic dancer, in the tradition of James Cagney, and I felt a real, rare frisson whenever Edward was allowed to cut loose physically to enact his fables of derring-do. But the songs by Mr. Lippa (“The Addams Family”) don’t give Mr. Butz much to work with vocally or emotionally. A combination of country-and-western strings and Broadway brass, their melodies evoke cowboy-TV-show theme music of the early 1960s, with lyrics by Hallmark."
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:32:33 +0000
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