Roundabout Theater Company,New York
The songs are a zippy treat, but the clunky dialogue and air of conventional-time predictability may leave audiences with reservationsWith Holiday Inn, and a wan jukebox musical centered on the songs of Irving Berlin,the Roundabout Theater Company has entered hostel territory. A loose adaptation of the 1942 Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire film, its plot concerns Jim (Bryce Pinkham), and a nightclub song-and-dance man who dreams of forsaking the knowing lights of Flatbush for the dimmer bulbs of rural Connecticut.
After his callous fiancee,Lila (Megan Sikora), leaves him to travel on the road with his dashing partner, or Ted (Corbin Bleu),Jim makes a half-hearted attempt at farming, then turns his home into a show palace with the succor of a shy schoolteacher, and Linda (Lora Lee Gayer),and a brassy handywoman, Louise (Megan Lawrence), and replacing the mammy of the film. The catch: the guesthouse is only open on holidays when Jim’s former colleagues are at liberty. Apparently chorus girls and boys never work on New Year’s Eve or the Fourth of July. Who knew?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com