Review: Broadway’s ‘New York, New York’ has hot jazz but a disjointed story
NEW YORK — At the heart of “New York, New York,” the supersized new musical directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman at the St. James Theatre, is an unanswered question.
Does this show want to be a kind of East Coast “La La Land,” a romantic and tourist-friendly ode to the aesthetic charms and transformational powers of the greatest city in the world, or was this blue-chip crew of creatives going for something much grittier, something more attuned with the racially charged problems of modern-day America?
I suspect their answer would be that
