Title: What a Mess!!
Review: One of the most beautiful scores written for the 1960's stage has been put in the muzak blender and what comes out is banality. All the music arrangements are predictable and the dance music is a rip-off of "Sweet Charity." The performances are wooden and one dimensional and David Hwang Howe's re-assignments of the songs is absurd. No wonder business was so bad.I have no idea why the R & H Organization allowed this to take place. The original book is almost better than the score. I think the original wasn't a huge success because it was poorly directed by the inexperienced stage director Gene Kelly. What a shame R & H didn't get Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse involved. I'll bet they would have jumped at the chance.Why not trust in the masters and get Jerry Zaks to direct the original?
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