I can perhaps hold my own with posting adequate concert reviews, but I'm not going to pretend that my journalistic skills are up to snuff when it comes to subjectively reviewing live theater.
Given this admission of defeat, if you're considering traveling to Wolf Trap this week to absorb Atlanta's Theatre of the Stars' brand new stage adaptation of Les Miz, completely authorized by the legendary Cameron MacKinstosh, I humbly defer you to this comprehensive review by the Washington Post's own Nelson Pressley.
Opening night was this past Friday, but the show makes its home on the Filene Center stage until Sunday, September 7, with matinee performances on both Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are still available for all shows with perfect weather in store for tonight, tomorrow and Thursday, so we hope to see you out to help us usher in the final performances of our 2008 summer season.
This is the most amazing show I have ever seen in my entire life.
ReplyDeleteI must admit, even seeing the show when Colm Wilkinson was still playing Valjean, that this show is out of it's league.
Les Mis has never been done like this before...(I think it should have though!)
I'm still breathless from that last scene. Wow.
And the use of the projector...it's adds so much more than I expected.
The only cons I can say are that the noon show is a completely different show...it seems like the actors are suffering from the heat (just as much as the audience :P) and also, the projector is completley invisible. Now, even though the projector does NOT make the show, it truly is icing on the cake, very sweet icing.
I will definitely see this again.