Girls, This SHOULD Have Been The Gayest Show In Town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But It Is So NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                          I have to feel sorry for the St. James Theatre, darlings!  First, they are booked with that desecrator of a show, "Sunset Boulevard," and now "The Queen Of Versailles," which has already announced a January 4 closing date.  So, if you want to see this, girls, rush to it!  But don't worry; tickets are easy to come by!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            I also have to feel sorry for Kristin Chenoweth.  The woman is loaded with talent, can hit high notes I have not heard since the late Barbara Cook, and like Jonathan Groff in "Just In Time," gives this show her all.  I would say she and Jonathan are the hardest working performers on Broadway right now.  But Groff has the better material.

                                               Which is the major problem with this show.  Stephen Schwartz, high on his "Wicked" successes, and enjoying something of a renaissance with "The Baker's Wife," gives Kristin nothing to work with. The songs are repetitive, monotonous, and not even one stands out.  He tries for one with "Caviar Dreams," but it just misses the mark.

                                                 So, Kristin has nothing to do but sing boring songs, while looking stunning in a series of costumes by Christian Cowan, while striking poses on dazzling sets by Peter Hylesnski, which are lit by Natasha Katz.  The show has plenty of razzle dazzle, but no heart.  It does not even rise to the level of camp, like "Tammy Faye."  

                                                      The show is literally all Kristin.  Poor F. Murray Abraham has nothing to do in this show but pick up his weekly paycheck.  And the chorus members dance around in rather bad choreography by Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant.  They are not even Marge and Gower Champion, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Nowhere near!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                           Michael Arden had better find himself a hit show fast, or he will end up on the Island Of Lost Directors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                               Despite all that it musters, the show ultimately fails.

                                                               This "Queen" needs to have her crown removed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!