The four nominees for best musical revival were selected from six eligible shows: “Camelot,” “Dancin’,” “Into the Woods,” “Parade,” “Sweeney Todd” and “1776.” Here’s what our critics had to say about the nominated productions:
The Bartlett Sher-helmed revival of the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical “Camelot,” a show based on T.H. White’s Arthurian tales, featured book revisions by Aaron Sorkin. Though Jesse Green thought that the production, which stars Andrew Burnap, Phillipa Soo and Jordan Donica, failed to recapture the magic of the original, he wrote that it is “visually and sonically gorgeous,” with Burnap and Soo playing “the West Wing of the Castle banter beautifully.”
The cast of “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s pastiche of a half-dozen Perrault and Brothers Grimm fairy tales, included Sara Bareilles, Julia Lester and Phillipa Soo. “When the lights came up,” Alexis Soloski wrote in her review of the minimally staged production, directed by Lear deBessonet, “the crowd screamed and screamed and screamed.” She also had praise for the set, designed by David Rockwell. “On this mostly blank canvas,” she wrote, “deBessonet, aided by Lorin Latarro’s playful choreography, paints in rich and plentiful tones.”
“Parade,” which transferred to Broadway from New York City Center, stars Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond in a production of the 1998 musical about a Jewish man lynched by an antisemitic mob. In his review, Green called the revival “riveting” and “timely,” singling out Diamond, who plays the lynched man’s wife, for making Lucille Frank “our way into a story we might rather turn away from.”
“Sweeney Todd,” Thomas Kail’s revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical about a “demon barber” who slits the throats of his customers, stars Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford. The show, with a book by Hugh Wheeler, is “ravishingly sung, deeply emotional and strangely hilarious,” Green wrote. Groban, he added, “makes sure every word is bell clear,” while Ashford is a “brilliant comic” who plays Mrs. Lovett as “a brutal schemer for whom zaniness is a useful cover.”
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