BROADWAY REVIEW: Celebrities tripping on LSD in ‘Flying Over Sunset’ make for a bizarre musical
As an audience member, though, you’re pushed into a voyeuristic experience. You’re not having whatever fun the characters are having and, after a while, you feel pushed to the periphery and disengaged.
That, in a nutshell, is the chronic problem that afflicts “Flying Over Sunset,” the intellectually rich, admirably ambitious and elegantly produced new musical at Lincoln Center, with both book and direction by James Lapine, an oft-sumptuous score by Tom Kitt and rich lyrics by Michael Korie.
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