Thursday, February 3, 2005

SO, MATT, WHAT NIGHT ARE YOU GOING? Ben Brantley reviews the new musical Good Vibrations:
Even those who believe everything on this planet is here for a purpose may at first have trouble justifying the existence of "Good Vibrations," the singing headache that opened last night at the Eugene O'Neill Theater.

But audience members strong enough to sit through this rickety jukebox of a show, which manages to purge all catchiness from the surpassingly catchy hits of the Beach Boys, will discover that the production does have a reason to be, and a noble one: "Good Vibrations" sacrifices itself, night after night and with considerable anguish, to make all other musicals on Broadway look good.

And to think it could've been worse -- this is the musical that axed Justin Guarini.

(Man, we love bad musicals here -- see Matt's and Adam's takes on previous dreck.)

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