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I don't think the writing style of the book was great by any stretch, but the musical basically chucked the entire story and just left the barest set-up as its entire plot.
This wouldn't have been so bad if I perceived barely anything happening in the 2nd act, but was pretty baren of plot. I love the songs, the costumes, the characters ... but I hate that it's a tenth of the story instead of the customary musical adaptation of maybe half the story.
I hate it even more because reading the book is such a dreadful chore. It would have been nice to have the musical be a reasonable re-telling of the interesting story. But that's emphatically NOT the case.
Good songs though.
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