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‘Floyd Collins’ Review: Jeremy Jordan and a Stellar Score Shine in a Shadowy Broadway Musical
Jordan's performance and Adam Guettel's sterling score shine in Tina Landau's shadowy Broadway staging at Lincoln Center Theater.
Along with the design team (primarily in the sets by dots and lights by Scott Zielinski), Landau makes excellent use of the cavernous stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, though not to represent caves in any literal way. Most of the stage is a blank expanse, vaguely textured and earthen, stretching upstage to a low horizon — and Zielinski takes full advantage of a hanging scrim to create some breathtaking displays, especially when Landau scatters the ensemble across the back wall, posing them into sublime tableaux. Though the role is slightly underwritten, Jordan finds depth in Floyd, taking him on a journey from a hopeful and plucky explorer to a scared, desperate, starving, lonely, and trapped man on the brink of both sanity and death.
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