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Mylinda Hull

Soon

October 11, 2026

"Soon" is a timely attempt to deal with climate change while wedding it to more personal happenings in a person’s life. Writing book, music and lyrics, Nick Blaemire could have used another set of eyes and ears to help with the repetition and dragginess of some of the plot devices. The game cast works harder than most considering they are so close to the audience that they almost in our laps and they have to make everything real. "Soon" is a diverting small musical which is saved by its last minute revelation which takes the show in a new and more urgent direction. [more]

Gypsy

January 14, 2025

Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe’s production of “Gypsy” at the Majestic [more]

Mr. Saturday Night

May 6, 2022

Anyone else may find this decent show to be a tired affair which just about sustains its two-and-half-hour running time. The memory-piece book by Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel is based on their screenplay which ranges from the 1950’s to the 1990’s. It intends to be a loving tribute to a bygone show business era and fitfully succeeds at that. The schmaltz-laden dramatic writing never really rises above the rudimentary, rendering the events and conflicts with patness and clichés. Still, it offers choice roles that are marvelously performed by the other cast members. [more]

The New Yorkers: A Sociological Musical Satire

March 29, 2017

Herbert Fields’s book was based on a story by E. Ray Goetz and New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno. This clunky concert adaptation by Jack Viertel is crammed with double entendres, puns, anachronisms, and contemporary inside jokes that mostly thud. [more]