Ahead of tonight's TonyAwards, Times theater critic CharlesMcNulty ranks this year’s best musical nominees from worst to best:
nominated this year), whose character finds true authenticity through what began as a Shakespearean charade.
A few of the early songs seem like they’ve been pulled off an assembly line. It’s not until the second act that the songwriting connects more intimately to the characters — Ghee’s Daphne, most of all, but also Kevin Del Aguila as Osgood, the millionaire hotel proprietor who falls in love with the glorious, gorgeous human formerly known as Jerry, now called Daphne.
Usually in these kinds of shows the famous songs are shoehorned into a book that doesn’t sweat the dramatic details. Logic and plausibility are held in abeyance to pave the way for the next juicy pop number. That’s not the case here, thanks to David West Read’s clever script, which finds a flexible frame for the neo-Shakespearean fun and games.The WGA announced Monday that it would not picket the Broadway awards show, scheduled for June 11, allowing it to proceed in altered form.
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