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re: "Yet I suspect this show, which has been doing solid business in previews, will have no trouble finding an audience."

Posted by:	BruceinIthaca 01:06 am EDT 03/31/14
In reply to:	"Yet I suspect this show, which has been doing solid business in previews, will have no trouble ... - lowwriter 12:53 am EDT 03/31/14

As with "Mothers and Sons" (which I liked a lot more than "If/Then," albeit in its DC version), I think Brantley writes a fair and actually somewhat generous review. He praises Idina Menzel for doing what she does well (even when her material lets her down), praises the other actors as appropriate to their roles in the show, and focuses his negative remarks where many of us thought they belong--the trite and poorly written book and the less than distinguished score. And if Adele Manatee stays with it, I bet the reviews won't matter for awhile. The teenage girls who made "Wicked" a huge success are now at the right age for this one. I still think "Next to Normal" was better and braver and, even when it dipped into cliches about mental illness, still was reaching for something important.

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