| I saw it July 27th. The Brantley review appeared the next week. It's possible that the performance changed, both day-to-day, and evolved (or the opposite). But though I generally like a lid kept on such displays of feeling in musicals -- to my thinking, the songs themselves are intended to do what tears do (generalizations dangerous, understood) -- this was one instance of genuinely believable catharsis. It re-minted an almost too-often-heard song in context, and I was swept up. |
