Moby Dick

Saw the new Moby Dick musical at ART - pretty good! Thought the third act (of four) dragged, but at one point during the second act I laughed until I cried, and they pulled it off, on the whole. I mean, the cast were all incredible, they just had some difficult stuff to do. I don't know, I would have liked a little more presence of Moby Dick the whale in the theater, something a little more compelling in the fourth act choreography/staging, but I don't know how you do that in a non-goofy way, and I suppose they didn't either. (There is maaaybe a read where the audience are Moby Dick, the thing that ultimately compels Ahab to his (and everyone's) doom, the way the harpoon ropes are running up to the thrust of the stage, but if that's what they meant they needed to make it waaaay more clear with the lighting.)