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Title: Awful...truly witless, vulgar and awful.
Review: I can't believe the ratings on this score...4's and 5's? Really? This score is truly awful. Written in a one-joke operatic style that quickly becomes excrutiatingly boring...wit and style is replaced with crudeness and vulgarity (granted it's Jerry Springer-inspired) in the libretto.The performances are fine, but one listena to these discs (which takes forever) and you note three things: the audience is truly unresponsive to the show (a live recording was a poor choice)...the idea itself is intriguing and might have worked in more talented hands...and, there is absolutely no reason to ever listen to this score again.I'll be truly surprised if it survives in New York, if indeed it ever makes the crossing. A major disappointment.
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