starring Meryl Streep and James Corden. The show feels like it’s been around for ages, but that’s probably because the movie is still streaming on Netflix.
All seems to be well as bubbly is poured and congratulations extended for a rave from a New Jersey newspaper. But then the New York Times buries Dee Dee and Barry alive. Other reviews leave little doubt that opening night will also be closing night.“What didn’t they like?” Barry wonders cluelessly. “Was it the hip-hop?” Sheldon, the show’s publicist, explains that it’s not the show; it’s the stars. “You’re not likable.
The book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin reaches a perilous over-the-top altitude. On Broadway, the show found the perfect leads in Beth Leavel and Brooks Ashmanskas to bring the Broadway excesses of Dee Dee and Barry to non-hackneyed life. There was astute satire in their portrayal of the hypocritical diva antics of “liberal democrats from Broadway.” They were playing types, to be sure, but with the granularity of backstage insight and prickly professional experience.
The book, which gets convoluted, isn’t the sole problem. The score, by Matthew Sklar and Beguelin , plunks down numbers that, in the second act especially, stall momentum. Sklar and Beguelin are generous to a fault with the main characters, letting them sing about private concerns while the plot impatiently taps its watch.
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