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Oh, what a show” indeed. In the newest installment in what seems to be a never ending stream of shows on either side of the Atlantic, director Jamie Lloyd has created another stunning masterpiece.

🌟VERDICT'S PICK 🌟It’s rare to find a musical that toys with perfection—when it happens, it’s something truly special. Opening in October of 2024 at The Ambassadors Theatre in London’s West End following two critically acclaimed runs at the Southwark Playhouse, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a masterpiece in storytelling.

In a season of bold reimaginings of classic pieces in the musical theatre canon, some have stood out, highlighting different aspects of a known work and turning it into a new production. However, some have missed that mark by a large margin. 

If there was any more talent on stage at the Friedman Theatre, it might border on illegal. Originally devised by Sir Cameron Mackintosh as a one-night-only event in the West End in 2022, Sondheim’s Old Friends starred the biggest names in London, and celebrated the life of legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim—fittingly held at the theatre named after him.

“Why love?” is the question that bookends Maybe Happy Ending, and is the driving emotional force of the show. In what was one of the most crowded seasons in the history of new musicals opening on Broadway, Maybe Happy Ending, a new musical by Will Aronson and Hue Park, has stood out from the very beginning.

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More like “Hide and Seek with Sarah Snook.” Sometimes she’s visible and downstage, but more often than not, she’s hidden by one of the screens or a set piece. However, that shouldn’t matter because she is always there on one screen or another, but she is always performing to the camera - never the audience. And there lies my gripe with this show - it was a movie that just happened to be filmed mostly live. 

On paper, this musical shouldn’t work: it’s about a man who only became famous after death, and the lead spends nearly half the show playing a motionless corpse - during a rock concert, no less. Yet, somehow, it not only works, but creates one of the most thrilling new musicals of this season.

Bringing a new show directly to Broadway is a risky move. Many times, it results in an unpolished mess, but the rare exceptions can turn into unexpected gems.  That rare gem is Just In Time, the brand new bio-jukebox musical telling the story of Bobby Darin that opened at the Circle in the Square this spring.

Curtain up, light the lights—Gypsy is back. Again. Revived on Broadway almost every fifteen years starring the biggest female belter at the time, New York audiences are no strangers to Gypsy. However, this most recent production seemed to promise something different—but it didn’t deliver. Audra McDonald, a six-time Tony Award winner, makes history as the first woman of color to play Rose, one of the most revered roles in musical theatre history.

🌟VERDICT’S PICK🌟 God, this show is brilliant! Opening at the Golden Theatre in March, the highly anticipated, twelve-times-extended transfer of Operation Mincemeat is the most delightfully charming show on Broadway. Telling the true story of the MI5 deception plot of the same name which involved planting a corpse with fake documents in Spain to misdirect the German forces, it has become a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic.

🌟VERDICT’S PICK🌟 “New ways to dream” is undoubtedly the theme of Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical Sunset Blvd, based on Billy Wilder’s 1950 movie. This musical first opened in 1993 on the West End, starring Patti LuPone, who was subsequently (and infamously) replaced by Glenn Close when the production transferred to Broadway.