It was probably inevitable that Broadway would produce a musical version of The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks’s bestselling romantic weepie that yielded a critically reviled but audience-beloved 2004 movie best remembered for Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams’s steamy kiss in the rain. That scene is faithfully reproduced in a heartfelt if musically bland production that still has the power to reduce audiences to puddles of tears by the final curtain.
You can read my full review in the April/May issue of U.K.-based Musicals magazine.
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