‘Flying Over Sunset’ Broadway review: LSD musical is a bore on drugs
Being the only sober person in a room full of drunks is never any fun. Neither, as it would happen, is being an audience member at a musical about rich people who are high on LSD.
At least its trippy cousin “Hair” has energetic songs and some cute hippies who jump around to them.
Not that “Flying Over Sunset,” which opened Monday night on Broadway, is aiming to be a good-time kegger. It’s a stuffy and somber show with an off-putting premise: A 1950s California acid trip taken by movie star Cary Grant (Tony Yazbeck), “Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley (Harry Hadden-Paton) and conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce (Carmen Cusack).
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