The Last Showgirl may begin – as its ever-romantic heroine exclaims – with a shiny celebration of ‘breasts and rhinestones and joy!’ But in Gia Coppola’s (Palo Alto) sensitive telling, the glitter ...

Speaking of other musicals, during the show stopping end of Act One’s “Friend Like Me” I kept thinking of Kander and Ebb’s CHICAGO and the lyrics: “Give ’em the old razzle dazzle / Raz ...