I had to watch this movie last night. The community theater in Fredericksburg is doing the show, and, as we have not costumed it before, we wanted to take a look.
I KNOW Fredericksburg will do a better job than the Hollyweird types who made the movie. Because it was god-awful! And Fredericksburg always does fantastic shows.
The movie looks as if it was put together to climb on the "Jesus Christ, Superstar" bandwagon that was roaring through town back then. It's really almost a send-up of "JCSS," with not much going for it besides Donny Osmond, and he's not much, in this context (sorry, Stacey).
It has not one memorable song, and most of the songs rely on some sort of trick scansion to work at all.
The costumes are nice, but some of them seem out of step, if you will, with the songs and dances. For instance, one song sounds like something from a hoe-down, and yet the costumes are sort of an uneasy Turkish/gypsy/hippie mish-mash. The colours are pretty random and the dreamcoat is the best thing in it.
We are to make everything but the dreamcoat. There is a person in Fredericksburg who is making that. Someday we will get to design and construct one of those. Once we have the rest of the show together, somebody else will want to do it; a theater who doesn't have a volunteer to build the coat.
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