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Everytthat stands for trouble has been crossed, every choice feels rose-colored and flannel-cozy.
The young, talented, dance-mad company spins and leaps with all the vigor of a remembered childhood.
A teeny-tiny clockwork horse even gallops onstage right out of our shared deep memory.
Theres only one single solitary thing that feels modern in River City, and thats the ticket prices.
Dont do it, neighbors!
Thats flimflam, thats roguery.Thats grift.
But shouldnt she step up?
Hill does actually deliver the items they order; its not a swindle.
I played the clarinet quite poorly in the fifth grade.
I had atown music teacherfor that.
When we say a theater is like a barn, we are not usually paying that theater a compliment.
The enormous Winter Garden stage foreshortens weirdly if you sit upstairs, but itloomsif youre in the orchestra.
Behind these boards is a copy of Grant Woods Midwest, literally.
More has been smoothed besides.
Shuler Hensley (strangely unnerved and overloud) now shouts Shipoopi!
The boy whos seen the light.
To treat a woman right!
instead of the slightly more assault-y lyrics of the original.
There has been progress, but that progress has happened in a song called Shipoopi.
As cheeseball and predictable asThe Music Manmight be, it will still surprise you.
He does though, finally turn to his scene partner.
Stars have their own style of stardom: Jackmans is always Jackmans.
Foster, though, has the otherkind of star quality: gravity as opposed to shine.
Shes so physically precise!
She drops a shoulder, its enough to button a scene.
She drops hervoice?She can turn anything into a joke.
The Music Manis at the Winter Garden Theatre.
