At least the score was recorded in January by Ghostlight. Need to know when it will be released. Have a gut feeling Brantley will not like it. Jury is out on shows prospects.
It's a good thing Brantley was mesmerized by Kelli O' Hara! Left handed complements bordering on uppercuts at the underlying material. Since he swooned so much about O'Hara you kind of don't notice the left handedness.
With the way Brantley jizzed himself over Kelli O'Hara and kept mentioning her in almost every other paragraph maybe people won't notice his feelings about the rest of the show. The producers definitely have some great "pull quotes" from the review.
Better than I feared they might be, and if the producers of BEAUTIFUL, which has turned into an enormous hit despite mixed-to-positive notices for the show but huzzahs for Ms. Mueller, could make that show fly, BRIDGES and the raves for Kelli should have a really good shot for success. And the Tony award winner for Best Actress in a Musical has just shifted, and rightfully so.
I would have had some more praise for Pasquale and the extraordinary lighting design, but I think Brantley's spot on otherwise. Glad to see some love for what worked, for it outweighs the shortcomings in the end. There's room for this on Broadway right now, hopefully they carve out their audience.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
"But then Ms. O’Hara would sing. And the field of corn that is this production’s backdrop would seem to turn into a labyrinthine, richly hued forest where a woman, and an audience, can get lost in ecstasy."- Brantley.