More often than not there is a reason why a Broadway musical fails to have a long "afterlife." The expertly mounted, talent-filled Mercury Theater revival of "Barnum," the 1980 show created by a trio of Broadway veterans " composer Cy Coleman, lyricist Michael Stewart and writer Mark Bramble " is a perfect case study. You can almost feel the large, polished cast pumping its last best breath into the material in order…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:29PM on April 5, 2013