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Girl Crazy
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 19, 2009
Closed Nov 22, 2009

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Girl Crazy, the Gershwin's fanciful depression-era musical of 1930, is the tale of a sophisticated New Yorker marooned in a dusty Western cow town with no one who understands him but the Yiddish-speaking cabbie who brought him there and no one to love but the only woman within 50 miles.

The show gave birth to one of the all-time flashiest Broadway scores, featuring "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," "But Not for Me" and "Bidin' My Time," among others.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



New York City Center
130 W 55th St
New York, NY 10105


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

An oversize cartoonish quality pervades Jerry Zaks' staging of Girl Crazy, now being presented by City Center Encores! From the cutouts of cacti that dot the horizon just above the orchestra (crisply conducted by Rob Fisher) to Peter Kaczorowski's zealously colorful lighting to many of the performances, this is a production that revels in the screwball zaniness of the story (book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, adapted by David Ives). It's an approach to this material that makes for a lively evening, but it also means that some of the piece's genuinely romantic heart is lost.

The musical, which features a score by George and Ira Gershwin, unfolds in an exceptionally mythologized American We[...]


Reviewed by Andy Propst on Nov 20, 2009

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