#Fun songs, but plot is Bard to love

#Fun songs, but plot is Bard to love

“Fun songs, but plot is Bard to love” The new Broadway musical “& Juliet” is “Six” minus five.  Like that latter original pop-music-packed show did with the sextet of spurned wives of Henry VIII, this jukebox Pixie Stick, which opened Thursday night, has one of William Shakespeare’s ingenues, Juliet Capulet, reclaim her tragic story from…

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#’Almost Famous’ Broadway review: Musical doesn’t rock

#’Almost Famous’ Broadway review: Musical doesn’t rock

“‘Almost Famous’ Broadway review: Musical doesn’t rock” At the start of “Almost Famous,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, the frontman of the fictional rock band Stillwater, Jeff Bebe, barks backstage in San Diego that a young Rolling Stone reporter in their midst is “the enemy!” Theater review 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one…

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