A Prince’s Broadway Kingdom is Scattered to the Winds
Ben BrantleyA host of illustrious composers clamor for attention in the overture for “Prince of Broadway,” which opened on Thursday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Fragments of bizarrely cohabiting songs cozy up and collide in lush orchestral swirls. And before you can name who wrote one naggingly familiar splinter of a tune (Bernstein? Sondheim? John Kander? Andrew Lloyd Webber?), another jostles into the foreground.
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