While Marshall Pailet's direction is breezy and fastpaced, the dialogue has too many Borscht belt jokes ("Take my Grandma, for instance. No really take her-," Camp Rosenblatt, "As my Grandma used to say," etc.") and lyrics with too many quotes from much better song writers such as Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim and Bock and Harnick. References to Barry Manilow and Hanson don't really land and the show counts on a grea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PM on October 5, 2021