Review: MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET, Starring Ben Platt, Menier Chocolate Factory
In Midnight at the Never Get, time is not a straightforward thing. It’s never clear what’s real and what’s fiction, how old the characters are, or what decade we’re in. We’re hearing Gershwin-esque jazz standards, but also references to “peaceniks” and Woody Allen. The titular Never Get is a fictitious historic gay bar in Greenwich Village, where a singer in the twilight of his career named Trevor (U…