thestar.com: It’s very strange when the weakest part of a new musical comedy is the music, but that’s the case with Queen for a Day: The Musical, which opened Friday at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts.
Of course, when the composer of that music, Linda Barnett, is also the person who conceived the show and serves as its lead producer, there wasn’t much chance that anybody was going to tell her that, now was there?
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Although this article is very critical of Queen for a Day: The Musical, I am intrigued by the idea of taking a game show from the 1950's and transforming it into something new. It sounds like this musical perhaps needs some more work before it is ready to move on, but I hope it does. A few summers ago, I actually worked on a show titled Queen for a Day, also based off of the television show. It was a play, not a musical, written by the show's director. Perhaps if the music is adapted in Queen for a Day: The Musical, combined with a more cohesive cast and broader perspectives on the production, it could one day be a great hit.
the most curious thing about this article was actually the fact that the reviewer gave it two and a half stars and then bashed the show. The way the article makes it sound is that the musical is really not very good but that the actors did the best thye could with it. If that the sruth then why would he give it such a high rating. Regarding the musical, it sound like an interesting concept but it still needs a great deal of work befor it is a finished product. Or rathere, most of the songs need to be rewritten, because according to the reviewer that was what ruined the show. What I am a bit confused about is the section where he was talking about the flashbacks. It made it sound like the play was aking place in the past but then there were random section that took place in the present.
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