I was hoping NBC learned from "The Sound of Music - Live" and they did, just not very much.
The lead role is rather well played, but Christopher Walken as Hook was a HUGE letdown. Walken plays the SAME PATTER as he does for every role. The problem is, the lines were written for someone with a rather lower class English accent which Walken did not (perhaps fortunately) even attempt, but the overall result was terrible.
Walken can act, but he didn't even phone this one in, he sent it snailmail.
Of course, being live has the problem of the flying harnesses, but because the camera zooms in on the characters (instead of the single POV you get during a stage presentation) the wires are not only visible, but annoying.
Maybe NBC should stick to Saturday Night Live! and avoid Broadway.
The lead role is rather well played, but Christopher Walken as Hook was a HUGE letdown. Walken plays the SAME PATTER as he does for every role. The problem is, the lines were written for someone with a rather lower class English accent which Walken did not (perhaps fortunately) even attempt, but the overall result was terrible.
Walken can act, but he didn't even phone this one in, he sent it snailmail.
Of course, being live has the problem of the flying harnesses, but because the camera zooms in on the characters (instead of the single POV you get during a stage presentation) the wires are not only visible, but annoying.
Maybe NBC should stick to Saturday Night Live! and avoid Broadway.