| re: Dance a Little Closer | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 09:15 pm EST 11/11/24 | |
| In reply to: Dance a Little Closer - sc2 11:49 am EST 11/11/24 | |
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| This was a truly awful show - up there with the likes of SHOGUN and PIRATE QUEEN and A DOLLS LIFE and GOODTIEM CHARLEY. Reviews were universal pans, like this one "ALTHOUGH ''Dance a Little Closer,'' the new musical at the Minskoff, numbs the audience with almost every step, I won't pretend that it didn't get to me. That happened just before the second act, when the able conductor, Peter Howard, led his band in a brief medley of the score. Listening to Charles Strouse's music, as lithely orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick, anyone can plainly hear that it contains some pretty melodies. Remembering some of the Alan Jay Lerner lyrics that accompany them - especially those for the romantic title song - I was reminded of why Mr. Lerner is one of our musical theater's top professionals. It's depressing to watch these men bury their gifts in a huge, extravagant mishmash that obviously took months of hard labor to produce. In ''Dance a Little Closer,'' our sadness is crystallized by that Act II overture because it makes us realize that even this evening's good songs (others are not so good) don't realize their potential when performed in the show proper. And that's the final, incontrovertible proof of how far off track the whole enterprise is. ''Dance a Little Closer'' is one of those musicals that seems to have taken on a rampaging, self-destructive life of its own: an initially shaky premise is steadily dismantled by errors of judgment on all fronts." |
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