Review: NORA IN REP by David Gordon
A Doll's Life, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Larry Grossman's musical sequel to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, flopped on Broadway in September, 1982 after a run of 18 previews and 5 performances. The reasons, as critics, pundits, and musical theater historians later speculated, were numerous, ranging from miscasting to director Hal Prince's mammoth staging that dwarfed the material, to the material itself, which fo…