Martin Scorsese's 1977 film has been turned into a shlocky Broadway musical despite a Kander and Ebb score and additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
“New York, New York,” a stage musical loosely based on Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film starring Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli, is the latest tourist shop to set up business in the theater district.
The song — which is teased at various points in the show — is given quite the liftoff at the end. Director and choreographer Susan Stroman, a five-time Tony Award winner, pulls out all the stops in a finale that has the band rising from the pit on what looks like a giant Santa Claus sled. The audience drools on Pavlovian reflex. But it’s an orgasm that takes so long to achieve that many theatergoers will be sleepwalking through it.
but jettisons much of the plot that was specific to De Niro and Minnelli. What’s left is a void of good intentions. Uzele plays Francine Evans, a Black chanteuse with an almighty voice who has been entertaining with the USO and now is looking for work in New York. Practical-minded and clear-eyed, she knows the racist obstacles she faces on the path to stardom.
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