Title: Great production - lousy lead
Product review: This musical won Best Musical. Its a good production and a very good DVD with great sound and sharp picture. I really wanted to like this. But the subject matter was handled so much better and with humor in Hairspray. The songs are decent but unmemorable. But the REAL problem is the male lead who insists on talking like Deputy Dawg or James Cagney. I never got used to it. It is so incredibly annoying that you simply cannot buy the bi-racial relationship he gets into with a woman who offers so much, while he offers nothing but obnoxious exuberance and annoyance. If the lead actor were to cut out his speaking pauses while speaking his lines, the show would easily be a half-hour shorter--and sweeter. I love broadway musicals of all kinds but this guy does for Broadway what Jar Jar Binks did for the Star Wars Franchise.
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