My overall impression
There’s a lot in Brandon Baruch and Michael Ciriaco’s “Deicide: A Sort of Musical” that ought to be funny. After all it makes fun of religion, science, liberals, stupid people, fanaticism, botox and Oprah. But making fun of something doesn’t necessarily make it funny.
The look of the production is interesting, reminding me of children’s Bible storybooks with wonderfully saturated costumes (Laura Wong) and the cool card board cut out set and props (David Offner).
The music was just ok, nothing memorable. Most of the time the sound overpowered the actors singing —The Paul Gleason is not a good venue for musicals.
I really wanted to like this show. Baruch writes in his director’s notes “I hope you enjoy the show. If you don’t… well I’ll see you in Hell.” Well Baruch, as I always say, if I believed in Hell, I would go there. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
