[RMDupree]

I hadn't seen it before, although I pretty much knew the story.

Now, I'd ~love~ to see it on stage.

[JenB]

Well, like I said, I liked some of the music a lot. I sort of snickered my way through most of the rest of it.

I'd never seen it before either but I've seen/read three or four parodies so there weren't any surprises... what a weird culture we have where you can learn a story by other stories making fun of it. It's sort of like thinking "Romeo and Juliet" is derivative of "West Side Story". Which, appropo of nothing, made me giggle rather than cry, also.

[Corin Stormhands]

We saw it on stage years ago. I agree that the music is beautiful, but we weren't that thrilled with the show/story. The movie didn't change that.

There are a couple of really cool things in the stage show.

1) when the chandelier falls and

2) when he's taking her below and they're in the boat. It's really cool to see the fog and the boat coming toward you. It looks as though they're really in the water.

As a side note, we saw the DC premier of "Shogun" which I don't think actually ever opened in New York. It was most bad.

But they did this really cool thing with riders on horses. The actors had the fake horse/rider costumes you know where the riders legs are actually the horse legs. It was a really cool scene when the curtain came up and you saw these horsemen riding through the fog.

Then they turned to the side and spoiled the whole illusion. The audience laughed.

That show was painful to watch.