Beaches be trippin
When a Broadway musical doesn’t work, it’s almost never the fault of the actors. It isn’t in this case, either. Some of them even squeeze in some moments of charm; you can see why both women would fall for Thiessen’s languorous director, and Schwartz has camp gusto as the littlest Cee Cee, an already-jaded Atlantic City child star dressed like Baby June in Gypsy if she started the show as a stripper. But Vosk is the principal lifeline here. Now she just deserves a vehicle that isn’t beached.
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