Sometimes being nice has its rewards. Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film “Mr. Saturday Night,” which Billy Crystal starred in, direct…
supplying one of the most appealing and disarming scores in some time, what’s not to like?
Still, it’s the kind of show where verisimilitude is not the goal. It knows what it is: A great comic vehicle with a solid-though-unsurprising story — with a little love, if not schmaltz, thrown in for good measure. The Brown/Green score — a new musical color combination that one hopes stays in fashion — is bright, breezy and smart, recalling the type of easy-going scores with which Cy Coleman used to delight audiences. Brown’s ability of find a comfortable groove with an underlay of sophistication, and Green’s deft lyrics are a perfect match for Crystal’s wit and winks.
Chasten Harmon as Buddy’s exasperated agent Annie Wells shows she’s more than a plot device and definitely more than a straight man. Graff’s Elaine loves Buddy, so the audience also loves him through her eyes, even if their marriage made her defer her dreams .
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