Description
When this self-referential behind-the-scenes minimalist musical opened Off Broadway in 2006, its Broadway aspirations were sweet, but they seemed like part of the joke. Sure, book writer Hunter Bell and composer-lyricist Jeff Bowen’s navel-gazing rib-tickler was infectiously show-queeny, catchy, well crafted and bursting with charm, but Broadway? Well, the little tuner that thought it could, did. And it hasn’t lost a jot of its bighearted, quirky brilliance in the move uptown. Filling out the cast are the divine Heidi Blickenstaff and Susan Blackwell, making [title of show] one of the least generic, most inspiringly idiosyncratic gems on Broadway.—DC