Posted
8:10 AM
by Gene
"[T]he reigning genius of the American musical" -- nay, the reigning genius of all art, for all time! -- writes
a show that Ben "The Greatest Musical Ever!" Brantley reluctantly deems a failure, a show
fifty-one years in the making (isn't that time enough for genius?), and a form "starved for...substance and inventiveness" (in part because the reigning genius sated it with death and gloom and misery and tunelessness) must wait a little longer for its supper.