"Did this really need to be made??"
"Of course not," just doesn't suffice as an answer: At the time that I saw this show (thankfully on a comped ticket) I was going through a series of test to rule out whether or not I had a brain tumor. After the performance, I leaned over to my boyfriend and said, "I don't know how much time I've got left on this earth, but I deserve better entertainment than this."
I loved when they tried to add historical context by playing a radio announcement of Kennedy's assassination or briefly mentioning people picketing against the Vietnam war. Those were the truly "Wait. What? moments of this play about NOTHING.
Perhaps this musical might have been something special had the concept of a musical just been created, however, in this day and age I feel that all theater should really be about something and not just a showcase of someone that strung together a weak plot with rhyming words to absolutely no kind of memorable melody.
