[NEohioPAL] Review of touring "A Bronx Tale" at Playhouse Square

Touring ‘A Bronx Tale’ a crowd-pleasing, color-by-number musical Bob Abelman Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal Advertising for “A Bronx Tale” claims that the show is “‘Jersey Boys’ meets ‘West Side Story’.” The implication is that the show shares these mega-musicals’ status in addition to their time period (late-1950s/early-1960s), terrain (a tough Italian-American neighborhood in New York/New Jersey) and temperament (romanticized realism, where hoodlums harmonize). But, mostly, it calls attention to “A Bronx Tale’s” astounding lack of originality. For more of this article, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/