Some students transfer well from one high school to another.
Some do not.
Some movies transfer well from film to stage.
Some do not.
High School Musical (HSM) at the North Shore Music Theatre is the most horrible transfer yet, arguably the worst musical in history. The Book is about as exciting as Homeroom on a Monday morning offering no interesting characters or plot structure. The Score is as inspiring and exciting as Detention. For a musical with the word "musical" in the tile, there are barely any songs, but one can hardly tell because they are so lifeless, and they drift in and out of the inane dialogue before anyone notices.
To be fair, this pundit has not been in high school since 1985, but one can recognize good material from bad. HSM is an insult to Princesses, Brains, Basket Cases, Criminals, and Jocks everywhere, creating one obnoxious, offense stereotype after another. How gross is it that brother and sister are going for the leads in "Juliet & Romeo?" Ick.
Director/Choreographer Barry Ivan made no attempt at providing any life to this disasterpiece, as evidenced by the unenthusiastic and young sold-out crowd. Even the presumably talented cast barely mustered the energy to go throught the motions. Cast and crowd alike were bored.
This pundit did not return to witness Act II. Nothing he did was so bad that he deserved to be punished like that. Maybe the second half was a bit better; it could not possibly be worse.
Let's hope High School Musical drops out of the musical scene before it causes any more damage. F
2 comments:
Ok now Scott - I LOVE this musical - however I love it as a tv movie. I wouldn't necessarily love it as ashow and I am not sure I would love it in the movie theatre. You have to see it with kids - preferably middle school or younger. I first saw this with Karen's kids and they were singing and dancing along in the livingroom and it was a completely contageous experience. I think it was written for kids and plays well to kids and even though it may fall short on adult eyes and ears you have to give them credit for getting kids into the theatre ince that might open them up to other stuff.
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