Brooklyn or BKLYN as some people liked to call it was a show that I thought I would leave "humming the sets and costumes." I had heard a demo of the ridiculous score and didn't expect much from it, but the production photos looked nice and colorful. But I couldn't even come out humming those two things. The set was rubbish in the figurative sense and the costumes were rubbish in the literal sense. The orchestra, like so many shows not by Sondheim, Kander, Frankel or Guettel, sounded prerecorded, the score was deadly, the book was incomprehensible, the performers cloying and annoying and the direction, far from apt. So why did Brooklyn or BKLYN as some people liked to call it close- I'll repeat, "Because it sucked."
