Any thoughts on 'The Total Bent' ? - Page 2
Any thoughts on 'The Total Bent' ?
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#25Any thoughts on 'The Total Bent' ? - Toss your hesitations aside
Posted: 5/29/16 at 9:03am
We've sat both SL and SR in the theater and as long as you aren't completely upstage you are fine. The biggest problem with the theater are the occasional pillars....but the Public is good about pointing those out when you get the seats.
#26Any thoughts on 'The Total Bent' ? - Toss your hesitations aside
Posted: 6/24/16 at 10:57am
We saw this last night. We came out saying what everyone on this thread said - the music and performances were fantastic, but what the hell was the show about? My wife said, "This actually made me feel like I'm not smart enough to understand it." I think the show was just a mess as far as the book went - what there was of a book - but the music and the performances were truly outstanding. I'd want a cast album just to be able to hear some of those songs again, but aside from a couple of brief touches on themes, I really didn't understand the plot at all.
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#27Any thoughts on 'The Total Bent' ? - Toss your hesitations aside
Posted: 6/24/16 at 1:58pm
I have a front row, center, aisle seat for the final performance at 7 p.m. Sunday. Let me know if anyone wants it for member cost of $45. I'll put the ticket in your name at the box office... message me on here if you're interested.
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
#28Any thoughts on 'The Total Bent' ? - Toss your hesitations aside
Posted: 6/24/16 at 2:29pm
To echo everyone else, the performances, especially those of Ato Blankson-Wood and Vondie Curtis Hall, are nothing short of incredible. Blankson-Wood's big concert sequence in the latter part of the show received a huge mid-show standing ovation the night I saw it. The songs are really, really terrific, and I love Stew & Heidi's idiosyncratic approach to writing musical theater. The band is killer!
However, the show just does not work on a textual or thematic level. The ending is utterly anti-climatic and baffling. Whatever the creators were trying to say, it just does not come across.
Still very, very glad to have seen it.
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