So, I've just finished watching Broadway Idiot. It's a good documentary as well as a good promo for the musical. I didn't like the recorded versions of songs from the musical, so I didn't expect much either from the musical or the movie, but this made me change my mind. The stage production has a lot of energy in it when you can see what is going on onstage. I liked how the documentary showed the process of making the play, especially Tom Kitt's insights into the arrangements. I did like what he did from what I could hear. It's difficult to adapt such simple songs for a string section and more singers withought making it sound cheesy. He seems to have avoided that, or at least he had a sensitive approach to it. It was great to see his and Michael Meyer's attitude to working with this material. They both revealed new layers in it.
The movie is in general very good, the amount of live footage and talking heads is pretty well balanced. What I think there was a bit too much of was the live footage from BIAB, however it's no major issue. I was nicely surprised to see the footage from the 1996 show in Prague. I didn't know there was any and to tell the truth I'm very happy they chose a recording from my city. Just for the sake of Green Day sort of acknowledging its existence.
To be continued in the fangirls thread.