[NEohioPAL] Review of "Bullets Over Broadway" at Playhouse Square

Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Fri Oct 9 09:00:50 PDT 2015


‘Bullets Over Broadway’ a low caliber play in a high caliber production  



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics

  

Borrowing from the vernacular of the pinstripe-suited gangsters who populate Woody Allen’s homage to 1920’s musicals, “Bullets Over Broadway” has all da right parts in all da right places.



The show comes replete with a time-tested backstage storyline, broadly-drawn stock characters right out of central casting, jazz-infused standards like Cole Porter’s “Let’s Misbehave” that serve as show tunes, and high energy production numbers perfect for the period.



But “Bullets Over Broadway,” which is the stage version of Allen and Douglas McGrath’s nonmusical 1994 film of the same name, never becomes more den da sum of its parts.  



For more of this review, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/.  
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