ToDo ToDay: An Ella Fitzgerald Musical, Bar Pilar's New Happy Hour, and Los Campesinos!
Starring in a biographic jukebox musical requires a lot from actors. They have to embody a well-known person without resorting to caricature, and they have to sing well enough to keep the crowd from wishing they were hearing the real deal. Sometimes (Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls) this works; other times (anyone who's ever tried to play [...]