PBS makesk reboot of TV Golden Oldie, All Creatures Great and Small , Into a Feel Good Screening Hit. . .On Broadway, Golden Oldiies Feature Far Less likeable Characters
-- By Elyse Sommer
As we ontinue to be barraged by deeply disturbing news close to home as well as far away, many of us, yours truly included, have often turned it all off for a few hours of escape from reality with enjoyable, feel-good entertainment. Thanks to a terrific reboot, the PBS All Creatures Great and Small pleases on many counts: It's a visual treat, rich with characters who always do the right thing in an interesting way. And yet, for all its nostalgic pleasures and frequent humor, this reboot manage to bring the reality of hard times and an approaching war into the world of the Fannon Brothers and James Herriot.
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That said, Broadway theater producers are set to get back to normal And normal has decidedlyalways meant not just new shows but golden era hits that in the case of musicals .rely on less than honorable characters to rely on great songs to fill the th seats.. For the upcoming such revivals include the murderous Sweeney Todd , the duplicitous Music Man and the politically corrupt Ferdinand Marcos's wife Imelda in the hyper-immersive . Here Lies Love..
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