Gettin’ The Band Back Together: Pics, Videos, Review
August 17, 2018 Leave a comment
From its first moments, Gettin’ The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and clichéd characters. Yet, for all its obvious mediocrity, there is an odd and grudging realization by the show’s last moments: Gettin’ The Band Back Together is kind of fun.
What makes it so are the performers who portray the band members, each of whom gets at least one number that shows off a depth of talent that transcends the caricatures in which the show has trapped them.
Full review on DC Theatre Scene
Click on any photograph by Joan Marcus to see it enlarged.
Manu Narayan, Jay Klaitz, Paul Whitty (center), Sawyer Nunes, and Mitchell Jarvis
Mitchell Jarvis as Mitch getting canned as a stockbroker on his 40th birthday
Jay Klaitz as Bart and Marilu Henner as Sharon, Mitch’s mother
) Paul Whitty, Marilu Henner, and Sawyer Nunes
Manu Narayan, Jay Klaitz, Mitchell Jarvis, Tad Wilson, Paul Whitty, and Sawyer Nunes
Tamika Lawrence, Sawyer Nunes, Jay Klaitz (seated), Paul Whitty, Paul Whitty, Manu Narayan, Tad Wilson (seated)
Jay Klaitz & Mitchell Jarvis
– Brandon Williams (center) and the cast of Gettin’ The Band Back Together
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