This show is, quite unmistakably, a modern-day version of a Romberg operetta. I’m not the first critic to have noted this: while most old-school operettas had more conventional happy endings than this, it still displays all the features of that … [Continue reading]
Enter Laughing: The Musical
This show was a heavy revision of a half-forgotten Broadway bomb from the Seventies, So Long, 174th Street, but don’t dismiss it too easily on that account. The original play on which the musical was based was an absolute comedic gem about a … [Continue reading]
Myths and Hymns
This show began as a spiritually-themed song cycle that flip-flopped between the titles Saturn Returns and Myths and Hymns, written by the greatest theater composer of the current generation, Adam Guettel. The version that played off-off-Broadway in … [Continue reading]
Carrie: The Musical
This off-Broadway version of the legendary cult flop to end all cult flops received poor reviews and closed quickly, but I imagine this came as no surprise to the creators. This production was technically a revival, but the rewrites it underwent to … [Continue reading]
End of the Rainbow
This play with music based on the declining last days of Judy Garland’s career must have crossed the Atlantic purely on the appeal of its subject matter, because it doesn’t have much else to recommend it. The writing is strident, humorless and … [Continue reading]
Leap of Faith
This show is a particularly sad failure, as it actually had an enormous amount of potential. Based on the fascinating Steve Martin movie of the same name and with a score by the great Alan Menken, it should have been one of the most interesting shows … [Continue reading]
Lysistrata Jones
If there’s a stupider thing than this that’s been seen on a Broadway stage, I’m not familiar with it. This piece of rock-bottom literary blasphemy comes from the same guy who gave us the stage versions of Xanadu and Sister Act, but it makes those … [Continue reading]
Bonnie and Clyde
I hope my reviews of Dracula and Wonderland haven’t given my readers the impression that I hate Frank Wildhorn. Apart from those two shows, I’m actually rather a fan of his. I’m aware of all his artistic flaws…his derivative sound, the lack of … [Continue reading]
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