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Title: Stop! Don't Buy This Video!!!
Review: I saw the original national tour of this production, love listening to the soundtrack when it came out, and wished I'd read more reviews of this DVD adaptation before purchasing. All of the changes that were made to the show for this filmed version are regrettable. Stephen Schwartz, the composer must be regretting them now. How can you cut the best songs from the show? That's like "Annie" without "N.Y.C." The actors seem misdirected into making huge, over-the-top (ala bad children's theatre) acting choices, not that the book's material gives them much else to choose from! It's uninspired and highly disappointing.
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