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Title: A sad disappointment
Review: A travesty of Michael Flatley's earlier work in Riverdance, this soulless production is unworthy of the rare talents of Flatley and the other performers. The skillful dance is all but obliterated by flashing lights, smoke, and chaotic camera switches. Endless slow motion shots insult the dancers and the audience. The "story line" is phoney and gratuitous. Flatley makes a spectacle of himself, wandering away from the group in mid-dance to fondle and kiss the leading female dancer, casting himself in ridiculously self-aggrandizing poses, and whipping up the screaming live audience by shouting back at them, "Yes ... yes!" It's a sad thing to see Irish music and dance profaned by one of the very artists who brought them to the rest of the world.
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