MEMOIRS OF AMOROUS GENTLEMEN (Off-Broadway) - Duncan Sheik
Take Sam Mendes’s Cabaret, toss it in a blender with The Great Comet, add a dash of Crunchyroll and Moulin Rouge, microwave for 90 minutes, and whaddyagot? Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, of course!First things first: Duncan Sheik’s score is far and away the star here. It’s not all amazing and it longs for the work that a preview period would afford – his love of immediate, obvious rhymes and musical pauses is all too present – but it more often than not captures the ache and immediacy that Lea...