Jason Robert Brown’s new musical The Connector boasts one of his very best scores, but Jonathan Marc Sherman’s fact-based book regurgitates decades-old scandals about journalists like Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair in a way that muddles his message. Lead performers Ben Levi Ross, as a fidgety fabulist in the Stephen Glass mold, and Hannah Cruz, as an ambitious working-class journalist thwarted by Old Boys Club favoritism, deliver standout vocal performances. (And Scott Bakula brings a grizzled charm to a supporting role as an Old School journo.)
You can read my review in the April/May issue of the U.K.-based Musicals magazine.
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