NBC is promoting it for free on its app.
I checked in and out of this one, which is more than I can say for any of the
other live theater on TV of the last few years. While my parents were the
right age to be playing the album/cast album and/or movie soundtrack when I was
growing up, I don't have the formative memories others have shared. As best as
I can tell, I only know "I Don't Know How to Love Him" through the
contemporaneous Helen Reddy version.
As a different TV aside, I did see Nichelle Nichols perform that song as part
of a one-woman show in Portland about 20 years ago. I'm still bugged that
technical difficulties made an official recording impossible.
David
On Monday, April 2, 2018, 6:24:50 AM EDT, Doug Eastick <[email protected]>
wrote:
I watched the first 15 minutes and then had to do something else. I'll try to
find it online later.
The live tweets from legend's wife are quite the thing.
And follow this tweet quoting from Prady....
https://twitter.com/billprady/status/980659471918686208?s=19
On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 2:43 AM PGage, <[email protected]> wrote:
Bravo NBC! This is how you do a broadway musical on television. Everyone and
everything about this production was really good. Legend was the perfect choice
and was amazing - but the other main players were great too. Bareilles’s voice
was pure. Dixon was outstanding. I loved too the way they staged it and the
images they were able to capture. The thing was breathtaking. I never saw the
show on Broadway, but I have seen it done professionally (an unprofessionally)
many times - and of course the in many respects unfortunate film. This is how I
always imagined it would look.
I know a lot of people like to bash this show - either Broadway purists or
religious fundamentalists. It is not a perfect show - Hamilton does what JCS
wanted to do so much better that it almost spoiled appreciation for anything
else like it. And I have a few theological bones to pick with it (I don’t think
it is anti-Semitic per se, but it does in some ways serve the anti-Semitic line
if one wants to take it. But those are problems with the show - I can’t really
imagine a production of this show being much better than what we had tonight.
If I had two nits to pick: 1) the soloists were so strong, I wished the chorus
could have been, in some key spots, just another level or two stronger. Maybe
they could have had a standing choir in the background to support the players
who were moving on stage? 2) the closed captioning was a line or two behind,
which seems odd since the lyrics are well known and could have been pre-loaded
(couldn’t they?).
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