We didn't mention the atrocious sound in our review of Frost/Nixon because it was opening night and we were sure they'd fix it--on her way out, one woman shouted at a guy near a soundboard, "Fix the sound!" Unfortunately, he was a lighting technician. Throughout the evening, the play sounded like a shitty VoIP conference call--you really had to strain to hear around the tinny echoes. But we just noticed Michael Upchurch complaining about the same thing in his review of the Flight of the Conchords show. Acoustics are famously tricky in the Paramount--only the organ ever really sounds at home there--but what we heard sounded like bad tech. more ›