Hands on a Hardbody was a lot of fun - much better than I expected for a musical about a car contest in East Texas. Don't like country music but Amanda Green and Trey Anastasio did a terrific job and had me bouncing my seat. Very poignant songs about the hardships many people face today.
Love Jon Rua - was great to see him in another SD show. But couldn't they let him dance a little more?
(here's a little taste of what he can do when he's choreographing his own stuff for the Nets dancers or his Broadway Dance Center students:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNOQMJiso8&list=UUIFogYsIJvDMve_uzYXXoBQ&index=1&feature=plcp.
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6bV4L4hBO0&feature=relmfu)
He was still terrific, though, even though I had to wait til the second act for him to get his own song!
CH thinks the play was entertaining but is too stranded between musical and drama territory to have a long run in NY. I think he's wrong. It's Broadway-bound; we'll see who's right!
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