Post by ali973 on Nov 14, 2019 20:26:08 GMT
I've seen a lot since I moved to NY but never felt compelled to post anything until now.
So I saw The Wrong Man at the MCC. I was mainly drawn to it because of the creative team.
The Wrong Man is a musical concept album/song cycle forced to become a stage musical. It has a narrative but no plot (think Six), so it doesn't quite deliver a deep emotional punch that you'd experience in a more conventional theatre. By the end, it gets lost and can't resolve or create a clear conclusion.
But it's a musical and visual feast and gives Joshua Henry the opportunity to unleash his entire arsenal. MCC is a vibey venue that works very well with the show's modern/brutally minimalist aesthetic. There are major Hamilton and DEH vibes: over-choreographed athletic lyrical dancing, "chair"-oegraphy (benches and chairs flying, shifting and moving in slow-mo and all sorts of speed at all times), gorgeous melodic pop-rock score with great vocal arrangements, overamplified power vocals, crisp sound design and multiple 11 o'clock numbers.
Hard to really say what it actually is and what could be next for it, but I just thought it was perfectly executed. Might see it again before it closes.
So I saw The Wrong Man at the MCC. I was mainly drawn to it because of the creative team.
The Wrong Man is a musical concept album/song cycle forced to become a stage musical. It has a narrative but no plot (think Six), so it doesn't quite deliver a deep emotional punch that you'd experience in a more conventional theatre. By the end, it gets lost and can't resolve or create a clear conclusion.
But it's a musical and visual feast and gives Joshua Henry the opportunity to unleash his entire arsenal. MCC is a vibey venue that works very well with the show's modern/brutally minimalist aesthetic. There are major Hamilton and DEH vibes: over-choreographed athletic lyrical dancing, "chair"-oegraphy (benches and chairs flying, shifting and moving in slow-mo and all sorts of speed at all times), gorgeous melodic pop-rock score with great vocal arrangements, overamplified power vocals, crisp sound design and multiple 11 o'clock numbers.
Hard to really say what it actually is and what could be next for it, but I just thought it was perfectly executed. Might see it again before it closes.