The week’s other openings
Newsies the Musical; Somewhere; Honey Brown Eyes
Newsies the Musical
Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn, N.J.
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Inspired by a 1899 newsboy strike, Newsies has an “old-school sincerity that’s hard to resist,” said The New York Times. Though the musical flopped as a film, Harvey Fierstein’s revamped book helps make the stage edition “worth singing about.”
Somewhere
The Old Globe
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“There’s a good play somewhere within Somewhere,” said Variety. Matthew Lopez’s work about a 1959 Puerto Rican family that embraces Broadway to escape reality could have worked as a tragedy of delusional thinking if the characters weren’t portrayed as helpless victims.
Honey Brown Eyes
The SF Playhouse
San Francisco
(415) 677-9596
Two kitchens provide a split view of the Bosnian War in Stefanie Zadravec’s powerful play, said the San Francisco Examiner. In one kitchen, a Serbian soldier takes a Muslim woman captive; in the other, an elderly Serb consoles a Bosnian deserter. Both stories reveal war’s “human costs.”
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