… a show of sheer joy …
Thank heavens for Off-Off-Broadway! It gives you the chance to see a superb work by Paul Dick who has written over 15 musicals based on classical works of literature, among them, Wuthering Heights at the Mint Theatre Space, and Madame Bovary reviewed here. Still, his work hasn’t yet received the broad recognition it deserves — it’s awaiting! And now’s your chance to come to know him, and see a moving, song-filled exciting show.
This musical adaptation conveys to a remarkable extent the epic scope and compelling narrative force of Flaubert’s novel. One is intent, watching the musical, on catching every word and the meaning of each episode in the personal saga of Emma Bovary, beautiful and given to romanticism but in other ways not truly remarkable. What a lot of havoc romanticism can cause! The songs are abundant, and carry us effectively through the emotional phases of the narrative; musically they were somewhat expectable. For me, the best of the songs are the ones that are tough and “realistic.”
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