Oh, I don't disagree the musical is horrible -- my sister brought home the soundtrack before I saw it, and I was all "uh, you realize this is tripe, right?" But Douglas Sills is so good, in my opinion, that he can actually sell the horribly cheesy dialogue and uninspired music.

I'd expect that without Sills it would be rather terrible, sort of like Wildhorn's earlier Jekyll and Hyde, which I saw the video of with David Hasselhoff. No, really. It was soooo bad I laughed through the whole thing.