Off-Broadway Review: PLATINUM
When Platinum opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre (now a church) in 1978 it only ran for 12 previews and 33 regular performances. While the show's star, Alexis Smith got rave notices, the piece in general didn't fare so well. Clive Barnes wrote "It is an anecdote structured on a skeleton of banal music." Oh how right he was. This is the kind of musical that makes peopl…