Personally I really enjoyed this show with it's 90s theme and the young audience all did too. Yes it was campy and cheesy but isn't that the point? I certainly liked it more than the actual full musical of Be More Chill. (Though yes I do love that score.)
I could see it selling well again either with Dove or any other young star that could sell tickets. I'd love to see Katherine McNamara do a musical.
Honestly, the material and score was just so mediocre, I don't think star casting can really save this show. The whole time I was watching this I was thinking that it was barely better than the off-off-Broadway version of Cruel Intentions the Musical that I saw last year - which had the same kind of 90s cover songs material.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Dove at 31 Flavors that night
Whats sad is that there was a rejected score for this that used original songs that was good. With some polish, it couldve been a cousin to Hairspray. Instead we got the jukebox thing. Maybe theyll return to that score someday. Christians big number wouldve been my audition song for everything in my young life. I think it wouldve really worked for a younger audience.
Greensgreens, do you know who wrote this "score that never was?"
If it's really that good, I wonder why on Earth they'd abandon the idea. I felt that Clueless, of all things, needed a cast recording of fun NEW 90s-inspired tracks.