Some musicals (the best kind in my judgment), make you lean in and embrace their characters, even if those characters are problematic people. Others are driven by proclamations, and the more they confront you with those proclamations the more you find yourself disengaging emotionally. A perfect example of the latter can be found in "If/Then," the unabashedly New York-centric show by Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey …
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:44PM on February 25, 2016