Despite a score by Ryan Miller of the indie-rock band Guster, nothing in the 2012 indie sci-fi film Safety Not Guaranteed suggested a stage musical would be a natural next step. Indeed, Miller and Nick Blaemire, who’s adapted Derek Connolly’s original screenplay, haven’t found a way to flesh out the wisp of a story in a way that makes sense either musically or as a work of theater. Many of the songs end abruptly, as if someone has just lifted the needle on the record player and left the room to do something else.
Read my full review in the November issue of U.K.-based Musicals magazine.
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
BAM Harvey Theater, Brooklyn
Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes (no intermission)
Tickets on sale through Oct. 20
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