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‘The Notebook’ Review: Broadway Musical of the Popular Romance Hits All-Too-Familiar Notes
With songs by Ingrid Michaelson, the stage version of the enduring romance hits all-too-familiar notes.
“ The Notebook,” based on Nicholas Sparks ‘ bestselling, 1996 debut novel, has elements of all three — but they’re thinly rendered here in this Hallmark movie of a musical, awash in sentimentality and drenched in wistful longings and wish fulfillment. The journey is dramatized with interwoven, non-linear flashbacks, centering around their past teen selves (John Cardoza and Jordan Tyson) and then, nearly a decade later, their young-adults years (Ryan Vasquez and Joy Woods). But just before her wedding to nice-guy lawyer Lon (Chase Del Ray) she decides to return to the place where it all began after seeing a newspaper article about a house he has spent years fixing up — and, as it turns out, pining for her all the while.
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