There’s a reason why some musical
are not on Broadway anymore. On March 18, 2015, I saw Big Fish by Speakeasy
Theater Company at Wimberly Theater. If you are a parent taking children in
grade school to a musical, this is perfect. If that’s not you, I do not
recommend this musical. Period. But really though, Big Fish was not
entertaining and became more of a joke to the audience.
Edward Bloom tells these crazy, exaggerated, irrational
stories to his son, Will whom on the opposite hand, is more realistic. As
Edward gets closer to death, Will gets curious and discovers the truth behind
his father’s bizarre stories. Though this storyline sounds kind of interesting,
it got boring real fast. It felt that the whole production was trying so hard
to be funny, metaphoric, and original. The actors singing and acting skills was
not the issue, it was storyline and production that made it go downhill. First,
act 1 was so long that I just wanted to get out of my seat and could not focus
on the show. Act 2 had the same number of songs but it was more condense and
had less dialogue but more singing. By the end of the show, it felt like a
joke. It was not funny, entertaining, and everyone understood the metaphoric
meaning at the beginning of the musical.
This musical felt too forced and became uninteresting. With
act 1 being too long, it did not help the audience to be awake and engaged. If
you want to see a long, boring, cheesy musical, this would be the best musical
you will ever see.
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