‘The Life’ Review: Turning More Than a Few New Tricks - The New York Times

Billy Porter brings a heavy-handed touch as the director and adapter of this 1997 musical about prostitutes and pimps in Manhattan’s bad old days.

Because those are new, too. Coleman, equally at ease delivering pop earworms in Sweet Charity and canny operetta pastiches in On the Twentieth Century, was one of Broadways most glorious melody write… [+1274 chars]

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