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How Did This Happen to RIVERDANCE?
If you have followed RIVERDANCE seriously, this version will make you remember Moya Doherty's warning in A JOURNEY about crossing the line. What with the blinding entrance backlights, smoke machines, swaying hips, headset mics and the ugliest costumes this side of Vegas - the line is barely to be found in this tired, truncated incarnation.
You should own it, however, for the inspired performance of the splendid Breandan de Gallai and for the American tap dancers.

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New is not always better
I would not recommend this version if you have not seen Riverdance before. Some of the scenes are ruined because of the almighty closeup. A good portion of the show is watching the dancers torso, not complete dancer, with feet moving. All you watch is their smiling face bobbing up and down. This version is also much slower then others I have seen; many slow songs and watching people playing musical instruments. I would only get this if you are collecting the different Riverdance shows. Buy Michael Flately's version if you are new to Riverdance. Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames great.

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Great Show
This version, published by the Detroit PBS station version is a recording from the show in Geneva. It's a very similar show to the New York City version, though the minor changes are still just as enjoyable, if not more so.

The video is much sharper focused and the camera work flows better than the New York show. This show is sharper than the Superbit version of the NYC show too. The production didn't seem to be as high a quality as before but it does work fine.

In much the same way that this let down the NYC show, the camera crew neglected to realize that they cut off the dancers feet a little too often, which in this show was very important.

The Audio is STEREO only, but very clear and quite acceptable.

Although I'm happy that this version didn't need me to flip the DVD over for the second half of the show, it did have a noticable transition to the second layer of the DVD between scenes in the second half of the show. Why this transition didn't happen during the black screen at the half way mark is particularly shortsighted.

Overall very enjoyable and worthy of an addition to Riverdance fans DVD libraries.