Re: "O. T.": Baz Luhrman's Broadway Boheme

Date: 30 May 2003 16:00:03 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.opera
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Don't know why you consider this "O.T." ! I enjoyed the performance - would
give it a thumbs up, all things considered, and in my case as well, the
Marcello was the strongest member of the cast. The miking bothered me less
than I thought it would; it seems to me to be far less obvious than it is in
most Broadway shows - that is, the sense of directionality from soloists during
a group scene is still there in the Broadway Boheme, not so in "Oklahoma," for
example.
My major objection to the production was the gratuitous vulgarity in acts I and
II. Musetta is portrayed more as a hooker than a courtesan, and half naked
prostitutes walking the streets of Paris on Christmas Eve was as inapt as it
was improbable, and detracted from the entire mood of the act.
Paul Cohen