We Will Rock You

I like to think of myself as a pretty simple person that is easy to please. Sometimes though that is not always the case. Last night I went to see We Will Rock You. I was hoping to be rocked. I wasn't. When I think about them planning the production of the show I envision a group of creative people sitting around a table saying..."Let's take some hit songs and string them together into a story, and it should be a love story, with conflict. And it should be funny, but also make a statement. There should be some dance numbers and lots of singing and let's keep the set simple....oh and after the show we will end with the whole cast coming back on stage and do a sing-a-long thing with the audience....get them all up dancing."

Brilliant idea. When it was done a decade ago. It was called Mama Mia and it was spectacular. I loved Mama Mia and have seen it three times over the last decade and would happily see it again. Perhaps when I am in New York.

We Will Rock You failed on almost every level. It definitely felt like they took the winning formula from Mama Mia and tried to make it work.

With Mama Mia the songs fit into the story line. We Will Rock You was words and then song. The story they were trying to tell just didn't work with the songs.

The dancing...bad. I am watching Dancing With The Stars and if choreographers can teach these stars new dance steps each week, then surely for a big musical production they could have come up with something a little better. Sofonda's backup dancers are now looking pretty good.

While some of the lines in the show were cute, they felt forced. The feeling of we want people to laugh so insert joke here. And some of the one liners were bad. It is always diffcult when you choice to be funny by making fun of an issue someone may be facing, even if they are a celebrity. It usually comes off in poor taste rather than funny.

I was mildly entertained. I had moments of boredom. I was kind of glad that it ended. And the big sing-a-long at the end, didn't really happen. How could it? The show lacked energy so it is difficult to expect the entire audience to jump to their feet and dance and sing-a-long.

Go see it if you need to get out of the house for the evening...other than that consider it a pass.