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Yeah, unfortunately the reviews are spot on. There's just not enough there there with "Bruce".

At least on the surface, this musical seems to have a few similarities to a show that premiered in Seattle a couple months back:https://www.5thavenue.org/shows/2021-2022/afterwords/Even down to their titles. Dealing with grief, difficult parent-child relations, and family secrets. I guess millenials, myself included, are growing up and starting to deal with some ****.

Funny and illuminating emails between Marianne Elliott and Sondheim chart the development of the revival: https://deadline.com/2022/06/stephen-sondheim-marianne-elliott-new-emails-company-evolution-1235037493/

Seattle local, first time posting, some minor spoilers. I was very excited to finally see this at Saturday’s matinee, been looking forward to for a while. Overall, Bruce is an entertaining show, if predictable and relatively slight. The behind-the-scenes drama behind the making of Jaws might seem inherently dramatic but the stakes just aren’t ever really there. Plus we know the ending; something that shouldn’t hamper a musical if all the elements are firing, but when only some of them are, or...