The film this show was based on, despite winning two Oscars, has a rather vocal set of detractors, but it’s actually a lovely and touching romantic drama, and its rich atmosphere and extreme romanticism certainly had musical possibilities. And while … [Continue reading]
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
There’s not much to say about this show that hasn’t been said. Over the course of an embarrassingly public New York preview period, with seemingly the entire world watching, the show gradually progressed from being laughably incoherent to simply … [Continue reading]
The Scottsboro Boys
This is Kander and Ebb’s worst show. Yes, worse than The Happy Time, worse than The Act. If you even count this as a “real” Kander and Ebb show (and given that it was an out-of-town discard that was only resuscitated and brought to Broadway after … [Continue reading]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The critic who described this show as a mix of La Cage Aux Folles, Mamma Mia and Rock of Ages was giving it far too much credit. What it really is, is a blatant b-grade ripoff of the stage version of Xanadu. Seriously, they’re almost identical…the … [Continue reading]
Catch Me If You Can
Apart from its one monumental hit, 2010-2011 was actually a rather disappointing theater year. Part of the problem was that Book of Mormon was such a phenomenon that it completely overshadowed every other musical that season. Still, Catch Me If You … [Continue reading]
Million Dollar Quartet
This is a particularly frustrating failure, because it could have been the greatest jukebox musical of the decade if it had only had the talent to do justice to its premise. This is a show based on the one legendary night when Elvis, Johnny Cash, … [Continue reading]
Liza’s At the Palace
Liza Minnelli’s third one-woman show in a Broadway theater in just ten years, this is not the most polished or flawless of the three, but it may have been the most exciting. Granted, her once-great singing voice has mostly subsided into a dry, Elaine … [Continue reading]
Coraline
This musical is based on the children’s horror novel by Neil Gaiman and, at least unofficially, on the extremely well-received animated movie based on the book that came out at nearly the same time. It’s a fascinating, cockeyed piece of … [Continue reading]
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