Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye
A musical version of Tootsie just opened on Broadway. It features Santino Fontana as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels, the role made famous by Dustin Hoffman.
Critic David Rooney gives it a rave in The Hollywood Reporter. But then he has to go and quote from it:
One of the most uproarious developments is Dorothy's unwelcome love interest Max Van Horn [....] In "That Thing," he brings the same wooden earnestness as Max that Max brings to Craig in the show within the show, drawing maximum laughs from [composer David] Yazbeck's lyrics: "It's odd, you're so old, I'm so young/ And my abs are like slabs of fine granite/ My bod is like gold and I'm hung/ And you're old, oh I said that, but dammit!"
Ouch. Yazbeck can't be bothered to rhyme properly. Sounds like a pass.
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