On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> All my friends who like musicals liked this one. The rest weren't moved to > watch. > I was away from home for the first half and I had the second half on mostly in the background. Hairspray was a tremendous improvement over Peter Pan as Pan was joyless and bland. Having crowd noise made Hairspray feel more alive and closer to theater. The ad breaks for the earlier NBC musicals were long and would start with the same commercial. Hairspray did some interstitials to transition from the play to the commercial breaks which did not seem as long as in the past. I was not pleased to see in-program advertising by cast members but that is the way of the world now. I understand why they did the bits where they took cameras to large viewing parties and gave a platform to die hard fans of the play. Since I am not one of them it left me cold. All in all though, I think it was a step forward for NBC and its presentation of live musicals. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
