FLYING OVER SUNSET: A BUMMER THEATRICAL DRUG TRIP
Have you ever served as the designated driver for a group of friends who proceeded to get totally wasted and have a great time while you sat around bored? That’s roughly akin to the experience of watching the new musical written and directed by James Lapine and featuring a score by Tom Kitt (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics). Imagining what might have happened if famed personages Aldous Huxley, Clare Booth Luce, and Cary Grant had taken LSD trips together in the 1950s, the hugely ambitious Flying Over Sunset unfortunately remains stubbornly earthbound.
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