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Brooklyn The Musical
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 21, 2004
Closed Jun 26, 2005
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Brooklyn The Musical is a new Broadway production by Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson with direction & musical staging by Jeff Calhoun and music supervision by John McDaniel.

From the heart of Brooklyn comes a band of soulful street-corner singers and storytellers. With a mix of pop and soul, they set their stage and tell a wondrous sidewalk fairytale about a young girl from Paris whose search for the father she never knew lands her in America, in the city that bears her name...BROOKLYN.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Schoenfeld Theatre
236 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036

Formerly The Plymouth Theater.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

When Bette Midler was first scooting across stages in the '70s as the Divine Miss M, she coined the phrase "trash with flash" to describe her ebullient persona. Now, the gleeful bunch of people associated with the theater-rock musical Brooklyn have taken that phrase to heart.

Rarely if ever has literal trash, or a focus on supposed human trash, boasted so much flash. Rampant are Tobin Ost's eye-popping costumes -- especially the sheath worn by a singer called Paradice, constructed of black refuse bags, duct tape, and police caution strips, with a matching hat! (John Galliano, whom Ost considers an influence, must be eating his heart out somewhere in Paris right now.) Then there's Ray Kla[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Oct 22, 2004

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