The great French historian Jacques Le Goff credited Dante with doing more than any theologian to make purgatory a meaningful part of Christian tradition, and, more recently, Jon M. Sweeney has argued that Dante practically invented
the modern idea of hell.
A sing - along feature is a nifty
idea but better known as a «pain - along» in this instance, while a sneak peek at the fresh
hell of a stage version
of this abortion evokes the
modern spectacle musical born
of Andrew Lloyd Weber's awful stuff as the soul mate
of the Hollywood spectacle film.