Broads on Broadway: Smash, Boop, Old Friends. Leslie Odom Jr Back in Hamilton. Stageworthy News of the Week
Female characters and performers dominated the shows that opened  this past week on Broadway, which the previous week had been dominated by shows featuring male characters and performers. Marilyn Monroe and Betty Boop are throwbacks to a previous era. In their singing of Sondheim, Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga bring the past into the present. Seven...