The revival features a retool of the original’s “sluggish” book by Harvey Fierstein. “For much of this triumphant, emotionally lacerating show, which had its official opening Tuesday at the Lyceum Theatre,” writes McNulty, “I sat with my mouth agape, astonished and grateful that something so brutally honest and rigorously constructed had finally broken through to a Broadway stage.Īlso on Broadway is a revival of “Funny Girl” - the musical that catapulted Barbra Streisand to fame - with Beanie Feldstein in the role of Fanny Brice. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, “A Strange Loop,” which tells the story of an aspiring writer named Usher (played by Jaquel Spivey), who dreams of penning a hit musical about “a Black, gay man who’s writing a musical about a Black, gay man” but is faced with the reality of taking day jobs to make ends meet. In New York City, he took in a performance of Michael R. On the stageĪfter a couple of years of pandemic-induced quiet, Times theater critic Charles McNulty is hot on the trail of everything that is new in theater - on two coasts, no less!
Huntsman Architectural Group did the interior design, including the wellness center ( see the images online) - and the aesthetic definitely feels very microdosing-room-for-tech-bros.
