Theres a new leading man on Broadway tall and impressive, with a towering presence and expressive eyes.
He just happens to be a primate… and also a puppet.
Would it be too on-the-nose to call it a gargantuan gamble?
Credit: Joan Marcus
When your title star is a massive marionette, maybe not.
The result is a Kong is like nothing youve ever seen on stage.
At the preview performance I attended, the audience went, well, wild for it.
If only the musical lived up to its star.
Three guesses what they find there, three guesses what they do with it.
Hes not a film, he declares.
I thought about it all wrong hes theatre.
The rest of the show, though, doesnt command that sort of attention.
Technical/puppetry grade:AMusicals grade:C
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