In a season so bad that the Young Frankenstein and Little Mermaid stage versions ran over a year, it’s worth noting that this is the one show from that year that nobody liked, and that closed instantly. It’s basically the aggressively avant-garde … [Continue reading]
In the Heights
This show is a more conventional show than the experimental Passing Strange, which it beat out for the “Best Musical” Tony that year, but I think it earned its victory fairly. The principle force behind the show was an up-and-coming talent called … [Continue reading]
Legally Blonde
This musical was based on a surprisingly intelligent movie that offered an unconventional brand of feminism by showing a pretty, fashion-conscious, seemingly familiar stereotype showing greater intelligence and achieving greater depth than anyone … [Continue reading]
Grey Gardens
This show was a critical smash, with good-to-great reviews and the biggest, most lauded star performance in years. Even Forbidden Broadway had nothing bad to say about it…so why did it only run six months? It’s a common cliché to say that a show … [Continue reading]
The Woman In White
Webber’s most recent stage projects had been failures, but I consider this show to be the point at which it became clear that something was seriously wrong. The source material, Wilkie Collins’ gothic novel of the same name, offered a cliché-bound, … [Continue reading]
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