I've always had a crush on Pierce Brosnan, and an actress myself, I wanted to be like Meryl Streep, so I had to see them together. My man can't sing, but that didn't matter. He can act, and he carried the tune (albeit somewhat strained). He made me believe him. Streep can sing (as could the rest of the cast), and that split jump on the bed was impressive, leading up to my favorite scene in the movie. My only real problem was suspending my belief that Streep could have had a twenty year old daughter unless she'd been in her mid forties when she did so, and that's not how the movie (or play) goes. It was a great cast, but the three women, at least, would have been more believable in their parts had they been a lot younger.