On the positive side, there’s nothing “scaled down” about the Kennedy Center’s latest Broadway Center Stage series presentation of Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s 2008 steamrolling tearjerker Next to Normal. If you were thinking that the productions in the series, billed as semi-staged concert readings, were skimpy in any way, you’d be wrong. The original […]
Archives for February 1, 2020
Review: The Simon and Garfunkel Story at the National
There are a few ways to handle the often reviled, increasingly prevalent form we know as the “jukebox musical.” Sometimes (Mama Mia!, as an example), the music catalog of a popular artist or group is incorporated into a concocted plot. Other times (as with Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), the music is part of a […]