Jackson McHenry
Critic at Vulture
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6 days ago |
vulture.com | Jackson McHenry
With Redwood and Floyd Collins, Tina Landau remains uncompromising in her vision. Director and writer Tina Landau in rehearsals for the Broadway revival of Floyd Collins. “My body of work has been a surprising mirror back to myself,” she says. Director and writer Tina Landau in rehearsals for the Broadway revival of Floyd Collins. “My body of work has been a surprising mirror back to myself,” she says.
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1 week ago |
vulture.com | Jackson McHenry
From Smash, at the Imperial Theatre. The sunk-cost fallacy lies at the heart of producing commercial theater: Sure, you’ve invested way too much time and money and talent in a production that isn’t working, but maybe you can fix it with another workshop? Audiences will finally understand the potential … if the composer just reworks the opening number … if you just replace the director … if you just hire a new writing team … if you just recast the star.
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2 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Jackson McHenry
Sometimes a spell may last past what you can see. Rarely will you hear as much audience response to a song’s opening notes as you will at a Sondheim revue, especially one like Old Friends, which takes as its premise that we’re all here to listen to melodies and lyrics we already love.
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2 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Jackson McHenry
Jasmine Amy Rogers (Betty Boop) and Ainsley Melham (Dwayne) in Boop! Who’s Betty Boop? Beyond the iconography you might have seen on a lunchbox or keychain, what do you really know? You can recognize her curls, her red flapper dress, and her pursed lips, plus maybe the rough contours of her personality: She’s a flirt, self-sufficient, spunky.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Jackson McHenry
20 hours ago“Boop!" makes a fresh star of the classic cartoon, while “Smash” banks on the rhythms of background television. Two famous bombshells of the 20th century are headlining on Broadway, where beauty, talent and a firm grip on the public imagination are often a sure bet. Withsky-high hemlines and …
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