There is a good deal of potential contained in The Mapmaker's Opera, part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Based on Bea Gonzalez's novel of the same name, the work tells a story with an epic sweep, passionate romance, and politically-charged circumstances. However, the imperfectly realized adaptation by Kevin Purcell (music) and Victor Kazan (book and lyrics) is overburdened with clunky bits of exposition an…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:33AM on July 16, 2014