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New York Post
US · 16 mins ago

Frank Sinatra bio musical in London is an insult — and not ready for Broadway

Theater review SINATRA Two hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission. At the Aldwych Theatre in London, UK. These vagabond shoes were longing to stray. But my sneakers reluctantly remained at the Aldwych Theatre for the second act of the new musical “Sinatra” in London’s West End. Sadly, the best was not yet to come. Ol’ Blue Eyes is given the ol’ cruise ship treatment in the sorry Frank Sinatra bio show directed by Kathleen Marshall, who also helmed the Tony Award-winning Broadway revivals of “The Pajama Game” and “Anything Goes” an eon ago. Perhaps contentedly stuck in the past, Marshall stages “Sinatra” as if it’s a musty old jukebox trifle — or, well, an aughts one: sans modern flair, chock-full of hokiness and making no convincing attempt at drama. A new musical called “Sinatra,” ab
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