Review: ‘Lempicka’ struggles to make a painter’s life work as a Broadway musical
NEW YORK — Say the words “Art Deco” and most people think of buildings and Miami Beach hotels. But those words also apply to the chic, tubular paintings of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, the title character of the fervently ambitious but chaotically conflicted musical from the writer-lyricist Carson Kreitzer and the composer Matt Gould, with Eden Espinosa in the title role of the Polish-born bisexual known for her spectacularly cool portraiture, filled with curvy yet crystalline expressions of
