Review: Booze-fueled tragedy ‘Days of Wine and Roses’ is now an off-Broadway musical
NEW YORK — Just as New York’s theater world sashays from one end-of-season party to another, bars open at every turn, comes a gorgeously and expressionistically scored new musical from Adam Guettel, an often melancholic composer known as much for the years that flow between his shows as from being Richard Rogers’ immensely talented grandson.
In “Days of Wine and Roses,” Guettel’s seductive arpeggios tinkle and twinkle like ice in a class, only for the composer to follow them with cold, agonizing strings as we watch an otherwise loving
