The young chap singing Stairway this year is phenomenal. Potential to be the next generation Gabe in that one, IMHO. I hate the story-telling also. This is likely a theatre convention to give the cast time to change costumes. A better idea is needed. The 80's selections of songs are poor choices for me. And not suited for a 4-piece band. Having cast dress as popular musicians then not using their tunes is lame, as has been discussed previously. Billy Ocean and Robbie Williams? Perhaps well known in England but not in the States. And where is the Bowie and Queen music? The projections are also poorly utilized and used way below potential.
All that said, British Jukebox feels like the right direction to us. I would suggest a tweaked tune selection and transition scenes, steal some projection spectacle from LR, with a sprinkling of more Led Zeppelin and Adele type numbers. Many of the LR tunes could be well performed with the current band and are nice tunes when not mashed-up. It might even work better as staying an “oldies” revue not going past the 70’s? I do like live music and have enjoyed snippets of every iteration of the music productions done to date.
MSoRR and Scrooge work in the Globe, so it all can come together. A good music show is almost within reach, too. Just WHAT that would look like is slightly below the mark. I also think a Ghosts of the Globe type show could work. Isn’t that what Scrooge is? Some story and some music? The days of quaint, cute, and little shows are probably well passed. Thanks to Monster Stomp Revamped, and then Fiends, pushing the production bar into a higher level. To me, Irish Thunder was the most immersive production they had before then. Celtic Fyre was a shift that worked in a whole other way. They could use that kind of shift in the Globe.
But hopefully, NOT a new paradigm folly like changing All For One into that gigantic flash in the pan Coke ad that is Spark. At one time, I'd say Cedar Fair wants their show back. But Carowinds actually has 9 shows with many being live music and musicians. Also, IMHO, Season of Cirque there is the best entertainment I've enjoyed since Monster Stomp Revamped. .
But, I digress having derailed the Britmania thread.
In the end, you can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time. Someone important said that once.