THEATER: THE SNOW QUEEN/ ONE CHILD BORN THE MUSIC OF LAURA NYRO
I hate to be the grinch, but the New Rep's New England Premiere of the new "steam punk" musical THE SNOW QUEEN left me cold. Almost numb. Neither enchanting nor uplifting, the show is overlong, with a fussy book, a clunky, bland "pop rock" score, cliched lyrics, and wobbly vocals, and marked by one of the most "awkward-bordering-on-creepy" scenes on [...]
