If flimsy sets and harsh video effects are a dealbreaker, Doomwatch is not for you.
He also gets not one but two love interests, as well as a smattering of new baddies to throw through flimsy sets, not to mention several personal dilemmas.
Instead, in the antiseptic confines of the Marquis Theatre, we get Dinelaris's formulaic book, David Rockwell's uncharacteristically flimsy sets and Darrel Maloney's surprisingly ugly projections.
The result was two hours of stumbling dialogue and wooden acting among flimsy sets, and a stream of gratuitous insults aimed at Muslims.
The flimsy sets, flagrant acting, perfunctory staging, and hectic montage of stock footage convey a frenzied vision of cosmic catastrophe that comes to life only in the awesomely silly special effect of a flying saucer aflame in the night sky.
Watching the same ludicrous proceedings as they unfold on the scuffed stage of the Connelly Theater in the East Village, on a flimsy set that would seem skimpy even for a middle school production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner," does not feel like an epochal experience.
Though it was shot on a flimsy set in Hollywood, thousands of miles away, the tension was real: 1942 was the year when the systematic elimination of Jews began in earnest, and many of the extras were in exile from Europe.
Along the way there were mishaps galore, scenic and musical: flimsy sets got knocked about by the wind; a static-prone sound system requiring body microphones chronically misbehaved so that sometimes a member of the chorus would come through loud and clear while the lead soprano was inaudible.
But the character's lethargy seems to infect the production, which includes Antje Ellermann's flimsy set that doesn't seem to fit its stage and often seems on the verge of collapsing, along with, I'm afraid, the rest of the show.
The movie, a procession of insults to Muslims against a background of comically flimsy sets, is of a piece with the ideology, praised at times by Republicans including Newt Gingrich, that has sought to portray Shariah law as a mortal threat to America, perceived stealth jihadists knocking at every door from Phoenix to Peoria, and worked hard to persuade the world that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
