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Title: Great Musical "Performed" in a football stadium
Review: This is a great piece of modern musical art and entertainment. I've gone to see it in London and have seen it at the Shubert in Century City many times. In all cases the casts were excellent and the overall effect was moving! Here comes the 25th anniversary concert on blu-ray with state of the art surround sound! What a disappointment! The concert was done in what seemed to be a football stadium, complete with screaming fans who yelled and applauded over most of the orchestral passages. Each of the "singers" were equiped with microphones in which each screamed for the entire evening. Not all the singers were vocally good enough to merit all that amplification. There is no balance between vocal parts and the orchestra. The performers stand in place sreaming while the orchestra can't be heard. This has been a lesson to me. You can't hear a musical production that has been produced as if it were a football game.
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