Imagine a New York where construction workers tap dance on steel girders high above the city, sorta like that famous photograph you’ve seen a million times, and where kindly landladies who on…
With a pedigree like that – and toss in Susan Stroman, as fine a director-choreographer as Broadway knows, Beowulf Boritt’s dependably sumptuous sets and a costume design by Donna Zakowska to rival her work onBut it should be so much more. That it is not falls largely to the predictable, cliche-loaded book by David Thompson and Sharon Washington.
Banding together in those pursuits – how they meet isn’t particularly important – are Jimmy Doyle , a white New Yorker of Irish heritage, who plays piano and drinks a lot; Francine Evans , a young Black woman who sings and carries a suitcase to signal her recent arrival in the big city; Jesse Webb , a Black trumpet player struggling to make sense of post-war life; Mateo Diaz , recently arrived from Cuba, a percussionist and what we would now call binary; Alex Mann , a young Jewish violinist and...
Most, not all, of the characters come with subplots, however thin: Jimmy, who, we’re told more than shown, has been a hot-tempered lush since his brother was killed in the war, is instantly smitten with Francine, soon winning her over despite her concerns about entering an interracial relationship.
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