It’s Friday, time again for my weekly Wall Street Journal drama-column teaser. I reviewed two musicals this week, one out of town (Goodspeed Musicals’ revival of The Boy Friend, directed by Julie Andrews) and one not (the Public Theater’s Shakespeare-in-the-Park revival of
Two Gentlemen of Verona). The first was good, the second wasn’t:
Ms. Andrews, who no longer performs, made her Broadway debut in “The Boy Friend” 51 years ago (sorry to be ungallant, but it’s no secret). Now she’s elected to pass on a half-century of accumulated stage wisdom to her youthful charges, and it shows, not least in the singing of Jessica Grov