Ouch! Brantley is back on his thrashing A-Game! My favorite quote:
I’m assuming the theory is that high volume will obliterate our awareness that this music is fatally ersatz. But there’s no disguising the feeling that almost every element of the production has a secondhand, synthetic quality: the dialogue, the jerky choreography (by Mia Michaels), the jokes, the anachronistic depiction of the show people who put on Barrie’s plays. (One of them, asked if he believes in fairies, answers: “My good man, I work in the theater. I see them every day.&rdquo