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...Richard Zoglin...
...grandmother (Linda Lavin) and her alcoholic, divorced mother--is overlong and shapeless. But the play's very artlessness makes it more affecting than many slicker stage memoirs. Its portrayal of how a dysfunctional upbringing can look absolutely normal to the child caught up in it rings true. --By Richard Zoglin...
...Jeanine Tesori and clever staging by director Michael Mayer, who has removed some of the silliness from the rather bizarre 1967 movie. All that and choreographer Rob Ashford's well-drilled corps of tapping chorus girls and guys. Look closely; there might be a star in there. --By Richard Zoglin...
...judicious review of the show, see Richard Zoglin's piece in TIME; I'll just fill in some connections and breaks the show makes with the movie. For a start, the Broadway version gives a backstory to the film's 36 hours. It wants to tell how J.J. got Sidney into his awful career commitment: by discovering him, when he was just a nebbish - Sidney Falcone, dazzled by the Hunsecker hubris - and educating him in the ways of venality. (It's basically "The Producers," but without the gaiety, the color or the synchronized goose-stepping.) As played by Brian...
...Richard Zoglin...