This show is much better and funnier than it sounds from its description, mainly because it has a sense of humor about its odd choice of subject matter. The opening song acknowledges that a musical about golf seems like an unexciting prospect, then … [Continue reading]
Children’s Letters To God
Maybe I’m just a bad person, but I didn’t find anything about this ultra-wholesome, ‘inspirational’ piece of childlike philosophy remotely entertaining. In fact, I found it tedious, cutesy, and tooth-rottingly saccharine. I haven’t read the book it’s … [Continue reading]
Assassins
This show was classified as a ‘Revival’ at the Tony Awards that year, but it was quite clearly a ‘new’ show by the awards’ traditional standards, and it was this production that really catapulted the show into the public eye. This show is probably … [Continue reading]
The Boy From Oz
Of the decade’s five jukebox musicals hits, this one probably has the most substance as a show, and you could make a serious case that it’s the best of the five: at any rate, it is far more substantial and powerful than the critics, who largely write … [Continue reading]
A Man of No Importance
Flaherty and Ahrens have done a lot of good work over the course of their career, but three of their shows stand above all the others…Once On This Island, Ragtime, and this one. It wasn’t exactly a hit when it came out, but of all the Lincoln Center … [Continue reading]
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