This week we chat with ourselves about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the new smash musical - The Prom!
Adam Feldman of Time Out Magazine gave the show 4 out of 5 stars, saying "It is cheering to see a musical comedy that engages with modern questions, with a teenage lesbian romance at its center to boot... But while the issues are contemporary, there is a 1980s feel to the character types and the overall style of Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar’s score, which resembles their work in The Wedding Singer; a stronger dose of reality in the lyrics and the book (by Beguelin and Bob Martin) would better justify the show’s eventual turn to sentimental education. But Casey Nicholaw’s peppy direction helps give the show enough momentum to power past its narrative potholes and occasional bumps of heavy-handedness."
- FURTHER READING -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prom_(musical)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Sklar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Beguelin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Martin_(comedian)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prom_(film)
https://theprommusical.com/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10161886/
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-prom-a-new-musical-original-broadway-cast-recording/1439644985
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2B2t1FljSrujv5XywkxFR4
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