I just saw this on Saturday with my wife (we both love musicals) and we both HATED it.
It is slow paced, runs too long (over 2:45) and never enticed the audience.
Also, there was not one "humm-able" song in the entire show. Not a single "Wow!" song or moment either. That is not just my opinion, that was the opinions of everyone sitting in our area.
The best scenes were the few and far between dance scenes. I know this is a musical but with so many mentions of Riverdance in their advertising, most everyone expected a little more.
Some other scenes were farcical (in a bad way), Grace swordfighting moments after giving birth, the "Matrix-like" swordfight screne with slow motion flying pirates clashing mid-air, Grace's dad ceding control of the ship to her after the first swordfight scene, I could go on, but you get the gist.
Finally, I must say this is the first and only musical I have hated. I don't use that word ofter, but this was that bad. I went to this with high hopes and, unfortunately, it would not even had reached mediocre hopes. This show will not last long on Broadway...
Really bad...
I just saw this on Saturday with my wife (we both love musicals) and we both HATED it.
It is slow paced, runs too long (over 2:45) and never enticed the audience.
Also, there was not one "humm-able" song in the entire show. Not a single "Wow!" song or moment either. That is not just my opinion, that was the opinions of everyone sitting in our area.
The best scenes were the few and far between dance scenes. I know this is a musical but with so many mentions of Riverdance in their advertising, most everyone expected a little more.
Some other scenes were farcical (in a bad way), Grace swordfighting moments after giving birth, the "Matrix-like" swordfight screne with slow motion flying pirates clashing mid-air, Grace's dad ceding control of the ship to her after the first swordfight scene, I could go on, but you get the gist.
Finally, I must say this is the first and only musical I have hated. I don't use that word ofter, but this was that bad. I went to this with high hopes and, unfortunately, it would not even had reached mediocre hopes. This show will not last long on Broadway...