Title: Pathetic
Product review: An operetta is a musical production in which the songs are crucially important. If the sound is so poor that you hardly hear the singer, how can you possibly enjoy this? A typical Morbisch prodution has pathetic sound, and this Merry Widow is no exception. It is filmed on an outdoor stage with tiny microphones on each performer and it does not work. Act III at Maxim's does not feel Parisian at all. Choreography is poor or non-existent, dances do not flow. This Maxim's feels like an amateur 3-ring circus. There is no feeling between the performers and they are supposed to be in love! This version has tried to add some humor to the dialogue and it fails miserably. This is the very worst performance I have seen of the Merry Widow, either on stage in Europe or on tape. I own an old VHS tape of a Sydney Opera House performance, with Joan Sutherland as Anna, wow!
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