“A Star is Born” is hitting cineplexes everywhere, but it’s really happening in the totally charming lead performance by the totally charming Dove Cameron in The New Group’s totally charming musical adaptation of the 1995 teen cult movie CLUELESS. And just when one’s so over indistinct movies cardboard-copied into mediocre musicals with banal, forgettable scores, comes the cleverest innovation of pop music to create a full musical score in memory. Writer Amy Heckerling hews

It’s ironic that just as SUMMER was announcing its Broadway closing, another diva bio musical, THE CHER SHOW, is opening. The two are conspicuously similar in their casting device, narrative structure and theme. Three actors play each diva in different life stages. Their stories enfold as memoir with the three interacting at different points in time. The theme is personal empowerment, filtered through a romantic lens of ambitious talent and the men in their lives. The compa