Posted
10:50 AM
by Gene
SACHA SYNDROME -- AGAIN:Out of enthusiasm for the promise Spring Awakening
holds, I worry that my raving fellow critics and I may be overselling the show. It gets the adrenaline pumping, no question, but there are still a couple of wobbly performances, some dead spots when Bill T. Jones isn’t contributing his brilliant choreography, and the whole thing doesn’t so much end as rush for the exit. More generally, although we’re all besotted with the songs just now, further reflection may reveal that what is A-minus work when judged against Broadway scores is only a B compared to first-rate pop. So see it, but see it without any expectation of a masterpiece.THEN WHY DID YOU IDIOTS CALL IT A MASTERPIECE IN THE FIRST PLACE?