Disappointment: The Pirate Queen

[qos]

I'm not an obsessive fan of the musical Les Miserables, but I enjoy it very much, especially Javert's songs. I am also fascinated by stories of Grace/Grania O'Malley, the so-called Pirate Queen of Ireland.

So of course I was delighted when I heard that the creators of Les Miz were doing a musical about Grace O'Malley called The Pirate Queen, and I was ecstatic when I found the CD of the Broadway cast on Amazon and ordered it last week.

It's awful.
I really, really want to like it -- but it's awful.

I've never heard a more boring score or mundane lyrics. There's no excitement to the story, no complexity to the music or the characters, nothing either sweeping or hummable. Whoever wrote the lyrics was so focused on the woman-in-a-man's-role-but-still-a-woman aspect that there's little room for anything else. But even that is handled in the most conventional, flat way possible.

This could have been a wonderful show, but it's not.

Comments

[kateri-thinks.livejournal.com]

Oh.

That is terribly disappointing.

[qos.livejournal.com]

On the up-side: Blackbeard, The Musical probably isn't Tony award material, but at least it has some fun and entertaining songs.

[femalegamer.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's such a terrible let down. :( Glad to have the warning, though.