Review by leftbanker-1

This would make a wonderful play.

Mesmerizing dialogue throughout, and on different intellectual levels depending on who is on the receiving end of Larry Hart's rants. It's clever as hell and if you don't agree, please direct me to a modern film that comes close to this.

I just finished reading a novel (Initmacies by Katie Katamura) in which a man's wife left him, taking the kids along with her, and she communicated horror this via an email. Brutal. At least Rodgers said his goodbye with a musical.

I wish that I'd had the opportunity to see this at the cinema. If I'm lucky, it'll make it here someday, dubbed into Spanish. Watching it at home took absolutely forever as I searched out every song on the soundtrack to refresh my memory of the lyrics, not only the Rodger & Hart & Hammerstein numbers, but those by Gershwin, Kern, Berlin, and on and on.

I couldn't help but be reminded constantly of the Monty Python skit--I think it was Scott of the Antarctic--where one of the actors had to stand in a hole in the ground to make him shorter than the other, as Ethan Hawke looked so puny in this.

Man, music really went to the dogs. In over seventy years of rock and roll, how many songs are there that some young piano student would feel motivated to learn? Probably fewer than one show by Rodgers & Hart.