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...sorts of awards for Jennifer Hudson, and Lord knows it's got zazz. But Bill Condon's movie about a Supremes-like girl group lacks the thrill and threat of the 1981 Broadway musical sensation on which it was based. The picture has a second-half sag, maybe because it added so many new songs and story lines to accommodate all its stars. Nice try, guys; near miss...
...shows like Ugly Betty into surprise hits and keeping Beyoncé and Avril Lavigne at the top of the pop charts. Hollywood, oddly, has been ignoring them lately, as romantic comedies have taken a backseat to guy films like 300 and Wild Hogs, superhero sequels and slasher films. But Broadway, long worried about its graying audience, is in hot pursuit. A good deal of the credit for this nascent relationship goes to possibly the least-appreciated breakthrough hit of the past decade: Wicked. The musical prequel to the Wizard of Oz, told from the witches' point of view, was dismissed...
...What's the story, morning glory? / What's the word, hummingbird?" That was Broadway teen talk back in the early '60s, when the high school kids in Bye Bye Birdie gossiped about their friends in a game of telephone tag. More than 40 years later, another band of gossipy girls is peeking out of another set of windows on a Broadway stage. How far have we advanced? Well, the kids are in a college sorority now, and the squeals of excitement--and the title of the opening song--have evolved into dumbed-down Valley-speak: Omigod You Guys...
...Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a bubbleheaded campus queen who goes to Harvard Law School and proves she can hold her own with the eggheads. Perky, pretty in pink and packaged with the requisite mix of campy condescension and you-go-girl inspiration, the show looks poised to become Broadway's next hit. If so, it will largely be thanks to the theater's hot audience of the moment: tween and teen girls...
Unfortunately, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) presentation of the former Broadway sensation fell short of its potential, leaving this reviewer emotionally—and physically—flaccid...