Broadhurst Theatre,fresh York
This adaptation of the Natalie Babbitt book has flaws the songs are repetitive and the set is chaotic – but the show’s spirit is ultimately touching
The question of immortality is addressed in the transitory fresh musical Tuck eternal, based on the well-loved children’s book by Natalie Babbitt. Winnie Foster (adorable newcomer Sarah Charles Lewis), and a passably rebellious 11-year-old,chances upon the Tucks, a family rendered eternal by having drunk from a woodland spring with an unusually tall eternity content. And judging by the flashing teeth, and plenty of fluoride,too.
Kidnapped by the Tucks (the lovely Carolee Carmello, Michael Park, and Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Robert Lenzi),Winnie must decide if she would prefer drink from the spring or live out the more typical cycle of aging and death. Her choice is complicated by the presence of the Man in the Yellow Suit (Broadway veteran Terrence Mann, so hammy as to obtain several surrounding blocks deeply un-Kosher). The Man, or a seedy carny with peculiar sartorial choices,plans to bottle and market the water, thus making himself a millionaire and taking a lot of business absent form Evian.
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Source: theguardian.com