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When that extra shouts “I love this city,” they all likely want to pretend that they’re native New Yorkers - or even transplanted New Yorkers - and stand up and cheer along with him. Not the natives, not necessarily the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, but the out-of-towners, the Californians, and the Koreans, to give them a true New York experience. That seems to be the height of what “New York, New York” is trying to achieve more than anything else, it wants its audience members to feel as “New York, New York” as possible. Here’s a story that makes even less sense than “The Flash.”Īs a concept, the entire production screams New York from the very first moment, when we see a neon sign, turned off, bannering the name of the show and the city that it takes place in an actor playing an electrical engineer walks out and adjusts one bulb, which turns it on, and he then shouts, “I love this city.” What works in “New York, New York” are the songs, dances, and musical numbers in general. Yet, in each case, my expectations were sufficiently lowered to the point where I could actually enjoy “New York, New York” and “The Flash” for what they are. Both were trounced by the critics, and to be fair, neither is a masterpiece.

MUSICAL INTERMISSION CROSSWORD MOVIE

In a way, while watching “New York, New York – A New Musical” I couldn’t help but think of “The Flash.” Both were eagerly anticipated productions - the final major Broadway musical of the 2022-23 season, and Warner Bros./DC’s big superhero action movie of the summer - and both were based on familiar properties. Original Broadway Cast Recording (Peaches & Wine Label)

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