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Aug. 3rd, 2024 10:28 amWhen I heard 'Florence and the Machine Great Gatsby musical coming to Boston' I knew immediately that was a Theater Experience that I needed to have and I would never forgive myself if I did not have it.
Did I expect it to be good? No!
Did I think it was, in the event, particularly good? Well, no. But it wasn't terrible either!
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Sidenote: in the program, there were two contributors who were both credited for having previously worked on Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet and Moby Dick -- both other recent A.R.T. Weird Musical Spectacles that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genarti and I made a point of seeing -- and then the one was also listed as having worked on a show called RooseElvis and the other as having worked on The Communist Dracula Pageant and I spent the rest of the night convinced I was being punk'd because they'd locked our phones up at the beginning at the show and I had no way to verify these were real productions and surely they could not have happened without us hearing about them and going?? There was nothing on hell or earth that would have kept me from The Communist Dracula Pageant if it really existed???
Anyway it did turn out these were real shows, they just happened long enough ago that they were before our time. Alas for the constraints of linear chronology!
Did I expect it to be good? No!
Did I think it was, in the event, particularly good? Well, no. But it wasn't terrible either!
( cut for length ) Sidenote: in the program, there were two contributors who were both credited for having previously worked on Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet and Moby Dick -- both other recent A.R.T. Weird Musical Spectacles that
genarti and I made a point of seeing -- and then the one was also listed as having worked on a show called RooseElvis and the other as having worked on The Communist Dracula Pageant and I spent the rest of the night convinced I was being punk'd because they'd locked our phones up at the beginning at the show and I had no way to verify these were real productions and surely they could not have happened without us hearing about them and going?? There was nothing on hell or earth that would have kept me from The Communist Dracula Pageant if it really existed???Anyway it did turn out these were real shows, they just happened long enough ago that they were before our time. Alas for the constraints of linear chronology!
