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| - I've waffled back and forth between 4 and 5 stars, as I would honestly give them a 4.5. However, since I liked it more than Ka, and that's a solid 4, they get a 5.
The cast were very charismatic on the stage. The plot was interesting, and wrapped up nicely.
The music wasn't nostalgic to me, but my mother loved it.
The visual effect where they blast the stage lights at the audience to (spoiler alert?) create the illusion of the stage in reverse is cool, but definitely made me squint!
I don't really care about what's pre-recorded and what's not, but at one point the guy playing Frankie knocked a microphone with his fist and the mic was definitely live.
There was a slight issue with the box office not recognizing the buffet promo from ticket master (and the whole annoyance of having purchased tickets but still having to go to the box office to get the buffet passes), but they figured it out and we got our passes.
They did open the theater doors early enough for me to buy (an overpriced) bottle of water, but the basically required "pose for a photo" slows things down.
There's a few dumb jokes in the script that fell flat for me, but they were still nowhere near as bad as some of the awful clown antics at the Cirque shows.
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