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Most of the Shakespeare selections are pretty awful...Hamlet, R& J, A & C, Lear. Macbeth etc. Only McKellan and Dench and Lithgow come off well, and Dench is given the thankless role of Titania in love with Bottom when she would have beeb a great Lady M. The music is equally awful. They're Brits. Why couldn't they do Walton or even Barber's A & C, Why the folk and hip-hop dregs. Even the West Side Story selection is pretty badly performed. On the whole pretty weak.

While the music is well sung, the acting is poor for the most part. Even Jane Alexander can't save this and Fred Willard was never a real actor. Vanessa is about the only one who comes off convincingly. Of course there are no sets and the staging and choreography are dull and routine. Totally unimaginative concert performance.

Bad music, bad lyrics, horrible acting, poor direction, dismal writing. There is not one good thing I can say about this dismal disaster, other than the writer/director should be banned from ever making another film for all time. Not only is the acting horrendous, but the singing is non-existent. And I speak as a gay man who loves a good musical and has appeared on stage professionally in quite a few. It really shows the dismal state of Hollyweed that this would ever even have been nominated for any awards. But then that is what it has come to. Even the good musicals have been destroyed by making them into films (i.e.Sweeney Todd, Chicago, ad nauseum). The art of the musical is now officially dead, and the participants here have killed it forever.