Marc Miller takes a look at A Sign of the Times at New World Stages:
It's called A Sign of the Times, and zowie, is it ever. Start with a jukebox score, consisting of rock 'n' roll favorites old enough to be nostalgically remembered by people old enough to be able to afford a ticket. Hire an engagingly diverse cast and build a story around them that regularly spouts laudable, but entirely predictable, platitudes about political topics that permeated the long-ago setting but still possess some unfortunate currency. Stage it frenetically, with periodic irrelevant dance intervals, and top it off with a six-piece all-woman orchestra. Overmike it and stir. Thus, A Sign of the Times. |
