Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I saw the musical on Broadway years ago and walked out stunned at how much I hated it. I know tons of people love it but I was super excited to see it and didn't like it. The musical numbers were long and forced and I felt the same way about the plot. Have no plans to see the movie.
Saw stage production at Kennedy Center last year. It was......nice. I thought I would love it but I didn't. But then I bought the sound track and started listening to it over and over and I really fell in love with the music. Don't know why.
It's more opera than it is musical and I'm not much of an opera person so I get why I wasn't bowled over by it with my first exposure. But the orchestration is
so complex (at least for me, a novice) that it really holds up over multiple listenings. Looking forward to seeing the movie.