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HERE I GO AGAIN! MY, MY, HOW COULD I RESIST YOU?
So it turns out that Ms Christine Baranski as Tanya, and Colin Firth as Harry getting a little arm candy to shake it with instead of trotting off home to His Other Half Peter (and, incidentally, also the expanded all-the-girls "Dancing Queen" instead of just Donna and Tanya and Rosie singing into hairbrushes), was enough to make up for almost all the cuts and other changes they made from the stage show. I was sorry not to get "Name of the Game", though, not because the show really lost anything without it, but because I do so love that song. Ah, well.
COULDN'T ESCAPE IF I WANTED TO! WATERLOO, KNOWING MY FATE WAS TO BE WITH YOU! OOH-WOO-WOO-WOO, WATERLOO, FINALLY FACING MY WATERLOO!
I do kind of love this show, in all its complete top-to-bottom nonsense. I didn't even really mind Pierce Brosnan's singing, although he was unquestionably the weakest musical link. ... Well, okay, Stellan Skarsgard (side point: has he always been that crusty? didn't he used to be a lot younger? and no, I'm not confusing him with Peter Sarsgaard) may have been worse if he'd had as much singing to do, but he wisely did not. I'm just saying.
So it turns out that Ms Christine Baranski as Tanya, and Colin Firth as Harry getting a little arm candy to shake it with instead of trotting off home to His Other Half Peter (and, incidentally, also the expanded all-the-girls "Dancing Queen" instead of just Donna and Tanya and Rosie singing into hairbrushes), was enough to make up for almost all the cuts and other changes they made from the stage show. I was sorry not to get "Name of the Game", though, not because the show really lost anything without it, but because I do so love that song. Ah, well.
COULDN'T ESCAPE IF I WANTED TO! WATERLOO, KNOWING MY FATE WAS TO BE WITH YOU! OOH-WOO-WOO-WOO, WATERLOO, FINALLY FACING MY WATERLOO!
I do kind of love this show, in all its complete top-to-bottom nonsense. I didn't even really mind Pierce Brosnan's singing, although he was unquestionably the weakest musical link. ... Well, okay, Stellan Skarsgard (side point: has he always been that crusty? didn't he used to be a lot younger? and no, I'm not confusing him with Peter Sarsgaard) may have been worse if he'd had as much singing to do, but he wisely did not. I'm just saying.