

DIANA THE MUSICAL - Longacre Theatre
If they can make a musical about Diana Spencer, aka the Princess of Wales, they can make a musical about anybody, I suppose. We all know the story from beginning to tragic end, and DIANA THE MUSICAL sticks, chronologically pretty much, to the headlines of her life, so the book doesn't break new ground. It packs the 2 hour 30 minute show with 24 songs (music and lyrics by David Bryan who scored better for the Tony-winning “Memphis”), none of which is memorable. DIANA narrowly


SIX - Brooks Atkinson Theatre
SIX - that would be with an i - is fun. And so is sex, which is what SIX, the sassy British musical “histo-remix” of the six wives of Henry VIII, is really all about: sex as gender, sex as reproduction, sex as recreation, sex as power, and (rarely) sex as love. With gang-buster energy, indefatiguable cool, and the cleverest wit, SIX is not only a rockin’ pastiche of pop song and dance, but also a hip statement about feminist empowerment. SIX celebrates, as the Queens sing


TREVOR - Off-Broadway
If there was a television After-School-Special musical about a young teen coming out gay, TREVOR might be it; the new Off-Broadway musical has a straightforward melodramatic plot. Its heart is in the right place, but sadly it doesn't do justice to its topic. And, while It observes all the conventions of a traditional two-act Broadway musical, it never elicits the in-the-gut feelings really good musicals do. TREVOR is based on a short film that won an Oscar in 1995 and led t