#or phantom

The things that I love so much about the movie seem to have been stripped away to make way for Standard Musical Fare, and I really dislike that. The costumes are All Wrong, the ensemble is dressed like some kind of Mad Max postapocalypse instead of like a bunch of Egyptian workers. The music seems higher? I am not a music person but it seems like they’ve shifted most of the baritone parts to tenor parts, and that makes it sound (to me) like the difference between a high school production and an adult cast. Finally, it sounds like they’ve turned the very distinct part at the end of Deliver Us from a very tonally appropriate thing into some kind of pop riff and that is wack. Overall it feels like some post-Hamilton musical commercialism was the guiding force behind these choices, and not the deep and abiding respect that the movie had for the story. Like literally in their trailer they were like “wasn’t that a great movie” rather than “This is an important story, one that we think is moving and powerful and we love” and they were on about Stephen Schwartz and production values and honestly? It is the wrong tone for this particular musical. 

This might be my favourite ToFi ever?? I can’t stop listening!!!

Am I like the only one on this problem or are there other ppl that suffer with the ‘wtf are they saying???’ bullshit?