Bravo NBC! This is how you do a broadway musical on television. Everyone and everything about this production was really good. Legend was the perfect choice and was amazing - but the other main players were great too. Bareilles’s voice was pure. Dixon was outstanding. I loved too the way they staged it and the images they were able to capture. The thing was breathtaking. I never saw the show on Broadway, but I have seen it done professionally (an unprofessionally) many times - and of course the in many respects unfortunate film. This is how I always imagined it would look.
I know a lot of people like to bash this show - either Broadway purists or religious fundamentalists. It is not a perfect show - Hamilton does what JCS wanted to do so much better that it almost spoiled appreciation for anything else like it. And I have a few theological bones to pick with it (I don’t think it is anti-Semitic per se, but it does in some ways serve the anti-Semitic line if one wants to take it. But those are problems with the show - I can’t really imagine a production of this show being much better than what we had tonight. If I had two nits to pick: 1) the soloists were so strong, I wished the chorus could have been, in some key spots, just another level or two stronger. Maybe they could have had a standing choir in the background to support the players who were moving on stage? 2) the closed captioning was a line or two behind, which seems odd since the lyrics are well known and could have been pre-loaded (couldn’t they?). -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
