Also changing it to a script with jokes insteqd of Sung through. Really most of the script sucked... not just the Mikey Boy parts. The Blood Transfusion... Factotum jokes... the two friends of Sarah... Boris...the Bat... The ENDING... every change from the original (except for Angels Arise the song not the way it was done) was for the worse...
> I liked about 80% of DOTV, the sets, the costumes, most of
> the cast, the music, most of the script, but it was
> Crawford himself and turning Krolock into a clown because
> he didn't want to do another dark gothic character which
> fucked up the show and the whole feel of it.
>
> The standing ovations at the end are completely
> irrelevant, as ever show I've been to that happens, even
> if it was utterly shit.
>
> You need to go and see a European version of the show, you
> won't be sorry.
>
> Pud
>
> > Therein may lie the problem. I never saw any of the
> > European versions and wouldn't understand them if I did.
> > However, I can understand the music and it was absolutely
> > glorious. OK, maybe not the best singers (Crawford or
> > Auberjonois) but the actors portrayng Alfred and Sarah
> > were excellent.
> > As for the story, heck, anything would be an improvement
> > over the original movie. I bought it last year to remind
> > myself again how bad it was.
> > I suppose, to be fair to the European versions, I should
> > see an adaptation exactly like them but in English. I'm
> > not flying 3,000 miles to watch a show I can't decipher.
> > So, if there is ever a London edition, perhaps I'll spring
> > for a passport. But until then, I just can not despise a
> > show I thoroughly enjoyed.
> > I hope this opinion doesn't get me banned from the list.
> > :>)
> > The Count
> >
> > > Uhm I thought everyone on the RR either hated, loathed,
> > > disliked it or thought it was so-so at best.
> > >
> > > I for one think it is the complete opposit of Tanz.
> > > (And that's about as possitive as my opinion of TMIL).
> >
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