#Lea Michele lifts Broadway show out of the guttah

#Lea Michele lifts Broadway show out of the guttah

“Lea Michele lifts Broadway show out of the guttah” Different people who need people have finally arrived at “Funny Girl” on Broadway. The problem-plagued revival of Jule Styne and Isobel Lennart’s 1964 musical welcomed its new Fanny Brice, Lea Michele, on Tuesday night, along with Tovah Feldshuh as her Brooklynite mother. And the crowd goes…

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#’Titanic’ parody hits the mark

#’Titanic’ parody hits the mark

“‘Titanic’ parody hits the mark” They called “Titanique” the show of dreams. Fever dreams. And it was, it really was. The off-Broadway cuckoo camp-fest at the Asylum in Chelsea is, by a nautical mile, the funniest musical in town right now and is built on an unsinkable idea: It tells the story of the 1997…

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#Sarah Silverman’s life makes a leaky musical

#Sarah Silverman’s life makes a leaky musical

“Sarah Silverman’s life makes a leaky musical” The new musical “The Bedwetter,” based on comedian Sarah Silverman’s memoir, is not as tight as a fitted sheet. Potential abounds in the tangled show, which opened Tuesday night off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company, especially in its central idea: that, to the mile-a-minute mind of a 10-year-old,…

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#Daniel Craig play is a disaster

#Daniel Craig play is a disaster

“Daniel Craig play is a disaster” Is this a Walther PPK which I see before me?  Almost! It’s former James Bond actor Daniel Craig, who’s starring as the Scottish king killer in “Macbeth” on Broadway.  His uninvolving and ponderous production (it opened Thursday night at the Longacre Theatre, but barred critics from publishing reviews till…

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#Billy Crystal brings yuks to Broadway

#Billy Crystal brings yuks to Broadway

“Billy Crystal brings yuks to Broadway” The Borscht Belt is alive and kvell on Broadway. Over at the Nederlander Theatre is Billy Crystal’s joke-stuffed new musical “Mr. Saturday Night,” which opened Wednesday and puts the followspot on old-school yuks. Hearty laughs. The glorious punchlines that have eluded most new musicals are here knocked outta the…

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#Amped-up White House farce is too wild

#Amped-up White House farce is too wild

“Amped-up White House farce is too wild” If “The West Wing” was made into a live stage show, banned all men and snorted a line of coke before the curtain went up, it might look something like “POTUS,” the hyperactive new farce that opened Wednesday on Broadway. Theater review One hour and 45 minutes, with…

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#Pain with a side of anguish on Broadway

#Pain with a side of anguish on Broadway

“Pain with a side of anguish on Broadway” “Ouch!” is the main takeaway of the intriguing, autobiographical new musical “A Strange Loop,” which opened Tuesday night on Broadway. It’s blow after blow after blow. And then some metaphorical slaps, kicks and scratches for good measure. There’s so much pain felt by the main character that…

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#Beanie Feldstein falls flat on Broadway

#Beanie Feldstein falls flat on Broadway

“Beanie Feldstein falls flat on Broadway” Theater review Two hours and 50 minutes with one intermission. At the August Wilson Theatre, 245 W. 52nd St. The audience members at “Funny Girl” are not the luckiest people in the world. They’ve waited a long, long time for the first-ever Broadway revival of the 1964 musical, which…

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