Hmmm, what can I say?

As mentioned by Leslie, there was a huge gathering happening in Kuala Lumpur resulting in this big massive traffic congestion in all major roads in and out of the city center. And the musical is at KLCC! What tough luck.

As I was driving, (yeap it’s me, not Alex) we saw a message on the electronic ITIS board stating “TRAFIK SESAK DI LEBUHRAYA PERSEKETUAN” so, we decided to the NPE instead. The whole journey was fine until we hit the KL-Seremban highway. It was literally a parking lot there. There was one period, I think we didn’t move an inch for about 30 minutes.

Anyway, enough of the traffic talk, don’t want it to be the highlight of the post! Back to the musical.

I watched the movie of the same title on DVD before and had an idea what to expect. Alex on the other hand didn’t. So we have a person with a slightly biased view and one without. 

Since we’ve been to the Plenary Hall for Mysticall Steppes last year, we roughly know how’s the setup will be like. The only difference was Mystically Steppes was a dance not a musical, so the acoustics were not the main focus but it is now. This was the first musical that we attended there, naturally we will somehow compare this with Istana Budaya. For musicals, Istana Budaya is still the place to go. The props were very simple. Using only the bare necessities to create the show. A large picture frame tilted with some of it broken off to make way for the stairway with light bulbs underneath them, giving the very cabaret feel to the set. By the sides were the telephone booth cum prison cells.

The show started off really without much impact. Probably I was expecting more since I watched the movie. Alex too was a little disappointed with how the show started. Very mediocre. Despite ‘All That Jazz,’   this really didn’t spark anything!

I was awaiting the Razzle Dazzle number to come on after the intermission, that also failed to impress. Somehow, I felt that Richard Gere did a better job in this. More stylish definitely! There was also the ventriloquist part with Roxie being the doll, and Billy Flynn being the master, that was rather badly potrayed in my opinion!

The only part me and Alex enjoyed was the court proceedings. The ending was a weak as the starting. Not recommended!