The Prom
Book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin
Music by Matthew Sklar
Lyrics by Chad Beguelin
Longacre Theatre
June 8, 2019
Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

This show is “enough” is the best possible way.  It has enough humor, enough dance, enough music, enough laughs, and enough of a message.  It is the best time I have had watching a good ol’ musical comedy in years.  It is damm near perfect.  If felt like the writer of the book and director watched this show very carefully and made sure that everything was in the right portion.  I was worried that since it is about “show people” it was all going to be uncomfortably over the top – but, again it was just perfect.  The silliness and making fun of itself was just right. Continue reading The Prom →

Hillary and Clinton
Written by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Joe Mantello
Golden Theatre
June 8, 2019
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

Laurie Metcalf rules Broadway in the summer.  One year Three Tall Women, one year Doll’s House Part 2, this year Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton – and a possible next summer with a Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf.  And each one just keeps getting better and better.  In way of thinking what makes Laurie Metcalf so wonderful on stage is the great ease she brings to her work.  You sense no effort on her part.  She is not obviously working.  She is simply talking, reading and being with her partner – there is no artifice here.

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