Bobby Steggert and Ivan Hernandez in the Off-Broadway premiere of Yank!
(Photos credit: Carol Rosegg)
You know, they just don't make musicals like Yank! anymore.
And that's a real shame, because Yank!, now in previews at the York theater, succeeds on just about every level that a musical can.
The show opens with a present day San Franciscan kid finding a journal in an old junk shop, and upon reading it is sucked into the world of which it speaks: the life of an innocent young World War II private named Stu. We see the army through Stu's eyes, and in the grand tradition of old-school musicals like South Pacific, boot camp is the perfect place for a bunch of green soldiers to burst into cleverly choreographed song and dance.
And that's really what's so refreshing about Yank!. In an era of ironic, self-aware musicals, where much of the comedy...
(Photos credit: Carol Rosegg)
You know, they just don't make musicals like Yank! anymore.
And that's a real shame, because Yank!, now in previews at the York theater, succeeds on just about every level that a musical can.
The show opens with a present day San Franciscan kid finding a journal in an old junk shop, and upon reading it is sucked into the world of which it speaks: the life of an innocent young World War II private named Stu. We see the army through Stu's eyes, and in the grand tradition of old-school musicals like South Pacific, boot camp is the perfect place for a bunch of green soldiers to burst into cleverly choreographed song and dance.
And that's really what's so refreshing about Yank!. In an era of ironic, self-aware musicals, where much of the comedy...
- 2/24/2010
- by Tim OLeary
- The Backlot
Cole Porter?s love affair with Paris is brilliantly evoked by this delightful farce ? last seen on Broadway in 1938. Master, Baron von Hummer (James Zanelli) and his valet, Gaston (Kevin Kraft), switch places and fall in love with mistress, Mme. Von Baltin (Kate Merrily) and maid, Maria (Jennifer Evans) who have also switched places. Adding spice to this amorous stew is Ida, the Baron?s jilted paramour (Christy Morton), and ?the outraged husband? (Todd Faulkner). Bill Coyne appears as chauffeur, messenger and waiter (at different times).Songs include: I Am Gaston; By Candlelight; Alpha to Omega; At Long Last Love; What Is that Tune?; For No Rhyme or Reason; Let?s Put It to Music; I?m Back in Circulation; I?m Going In For Love; What Shall I Do? This work was written as a chamber piece but arrived on Broadway in a much larger version. Not only are we restoring the original libretto,...
- 3/30/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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