★★★☆☆ Good intentions alone, alas, do not a compelling musical make.
Broadway
Spamalot: Lightheaded, Lighthearted Fun
★★★★☆ Grab your shrubbery! The Monty Python movie-turned-musical returns to Broadway.
Spamalot: Spamalot: Trumpeting the Return of a Raunchy Musical Comedy for the Ages
★★★★☆ A crack cast reinvigorates Eric Idle’s irreverent slice of highly improbable history.
Harmony: A Harmonious New Musical About Discordant 1930s Germany
★★★★★ Barry Manilow and Bruce Susskind create, Warren Carlyle choreograph-directs, and Chip Zien finally gets his leading-man moment
Harmony: Superb Singing Marks Barry Manilow’s Long-Delayed Broadway Debut as Composer
★★★★☆ A singing sextet in pre-WWII Berlin wows the cabaret crowd — but proves powerless against the Gestapo
I Need That: Danny DeVito’s Got the Goods
★★★☆☆ Theresa Rebeck’s new play delves into the concept of trash, treasure, and throwing it all away
I Need That: A Play About Hoarding Not Cluttered by Nuance
★★★☆☆ Danny DeVito stars in Theresa Rebeck’s play about a compulsive hoarder, also featuring his daughter Lucy DeVito and Ray Anthony Thomas.
Partnership: The Perils of Mixing Business and Pleasure
★★★☆☆ The Mint Theater continues its salute to British playwright Elizabeth Baker with a 1917 marriage-minded comedy
Gutenberg! The Musical!: Revisionist History of the Hysterical Kind
★★★★★ “Book of Mormon’s” Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells reunite for a gay old time
Gutenberg! The Musical!: A Meta-Musical Satire That Doesn’t Deserve Exclamation Points
★★★☆☆ Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells reunite for the first Broadway production of this musical spoof by Scott Brown and Anthony King, creators of “Beetlejuice.”