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On Tuesday I went to see the public dress rehearsal of company, which is on at the theatre now, with the cheapest tickets at £12. So I'm going to review it,briefly.
It's a Sondheim musical, the plot being from a book by some dude. I'm not writing his name, because then I might remember it and read something of his. The music is...good. Well, would you expect differently? There's a little more use of the main theme than I'd like, but that isn't bad enough to complain about. The singing was all good, as was the choreography and acting. If the real performances is better than the dress rehearsal, then it's great.
So, it was well made. The problem is... it's a well-made piece of crap. Well sung well written songs. Well choreographed and performed dances. Nice lighting and so on... and all of it completely wasted, because the plot is a piece of crap. This is the plot: A man is 35 years old, in New York in 1970. He isn't planning to get married and apparently this is really weird/. Well, maybe it was, then and there, I don't care. So his five married couples worth of friends do a lot of singing and dancing and talking, and at the end of it it's two years later and he's decided he wants to get married. He hasn't actually met anyone he wants to marry, he's just decided this.
So, yeah. It's fair to say I have almost no emotional connection with monogamous straight men, and that doesn't endear me to this plot. But even if I were mono, straight, and male, I'd still be bored by this. Dude, work out what you want and do it. Less whining, more action.
There are some good lines and funny bits in the second half, but overall I'd say don't bother.
It's a Sondheim musical, the plot being from a book by some dude. I'm not writing his name, because then I might remember it and read something of his. The music is...good. Well, would you expect differently? There's a little more use of the main theme than I'd like, but that isn't bad enough to complain about. The singing was all good, as was the choreography and acting. If the real performances is better than the dress rehearsal, then it's great.
So, it was well made. The problem is... it's a well-made piece of crap. Well sung well written songs. Well choreographed and performed dances. Nice lighting and so on... and all of it completely wasted, because the plot is a piece of crap. This is the plot: A man is 35 years old, in New York in 1970. He isn't planning to get married and apparently this is really weird/. Well, maybe it was, then and there, I don't care. So his five married couples worth of friends do a lot of singing and dancing and talking, and at the end of it it's two years later and he's decided he wants to get married. He hasn't actually met anyone he wants to marry, he's just decided this.
So, yeah. It's fair to say I have almost no emotional connection with monogamous straight men, and that doesn't endear me to this plot. But even if I were mono, straight, and male, I'd still be bored by this. Dude, work out what you want and do it. Less whining, more action.
There are some good lines and funny bits in the second half, but overall I'd say don't bother.
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I like Sondheim in general. Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Something Happened on the way to the Forum.. love them. Just not Company.
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