Cantorial
Lamb's Theater

Diverting but utterly lacking divine inspiration, Ira Levin’s gentle comedy brings us a yuppie couple whose Manhattan co-op is haunted by the ghost of a synagogue cantor. Anthony Fusco does nicely as the young man who slowly becomes obsessed with rebuilding the shul, as well his own religious background. Heavy issues are touched on lightly, advancing the cute plot but little more. 

Cantorial moved to the Lamb's after running at the tiny Jewish Rep on 14th Street, where it must have been more at home.

David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed:
March 1989
Black and Blue
Minskoff Theater

Like their previous Tango Argentino, Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli’s musical dance pastiche Black and Blue hits the Broadway boards after completing a hugely successful run in Paris. The French have long been fascinated by the American jazz and blues idioms, treating it with more reverence than Americans do. But one needs no nationality to appreciate the artistry of the show’s three leading ladies or of its talented corps of hoofers.

David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed:
February 1989
Bitter Friends
Jewish Repertory Theater

How I despised those TV commercials showing people walking out of a movie or play, a camera suddenly forced upon them, their gut reactions eagerly sought by on-the-spot pseudo Public Relations journalists. “It was wonderful!” the patrons exclaim. “The best thing I’ve seen in ages!” The few self-appointed instant critics who don’t sound moronic - sound phony, affected, and at least momentarily starstruck by the thought that their hyperbolic drivel might land them five seconds on a television ad.

David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed:
February 1989
Anything Goes
Lincoln Center - Vivian Beaumont Theater

Patti LuPone was born to play Reno Sweeney. The cast brings familiar Cole Porter tunes to brilliant life, and Jerry Zaks’s direction milks big laughs from a silly book. There was talk of moving the show to midtown, but see it at the Beaumont: there isn’t a bad seat in the house.

David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed:
October 1987

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