Regional Reviews: St. Louis - "The Karate Kid - The Musical" - 6/4/22
The Karate Kid - The Musical, now having its world premiere at Stages St. Louis, and boldly promised for Broadway. There are plenty of admirable moments of spiritual elegance, in apposition to scenes of comical pop culture from the mid-1980s. So why not just cheerfully add it to the cart of the musical theater pantheon? Mainly because, at the moment, the songs are tedious and vague.