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‘Elf The Musical’ Broadway Review: Ho Ho Etc.
Elf The Musical, the cheery – very, very cheery – revival opening tonight for a limited holiday run on Broadway, is an entirely suitable gift from a hard-working cast for fans of the well-liked 2003 Will Ferrell Christmas perennial. If you crack up at memories of Mr. Narwhal (here represented by a large tusk rising […]
For the everyone else – adults anyway – the updated Elf remains as much a mixed bag as it was during its previous two Broadway stagings in 2010 and 2012, with one major improvement: Grey Henson, the immensely likable, pitched-to-the-rafters firecracker from Mean Girls and Shucked, steps as easily into Buddy’s green winklepickers as Cinderella ever did a glass slilpper. McKinley directs, with a book by Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin and music by Matthew Sklar and Chad Begueli – pull off a neat trick in the final scenes, brightening the show’s pace and delivering Elf ‘s best moments. Tim Goodchild’s set design begins on the chintzy side, with, for example, Santa, on an otherwise bare stage, sitting on a throne that wouldn’t pass muster at most shopping malls, and Buddy riding off on a refrigerator-sized iceberg (Ian William Galloway’s cartoony, mostly charming video projections pull a lot of weight).
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