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Total Rating: 
**3/4
Opened: 
April 30, 2001
Ended: 
July 22, 2001
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
Helen Hayes Theater
Theater Address: 
240 West 44th Street
Running Time: 
90 min
Genre: 
Solo Bio
Author: 
Hershey Felder
Director: 
Joel Zwick
Review: 

Hershey Felder makes but two mistakes in his solo tribute to George Gershwin: 1) he tends to crash-bang the piano keys a little too hard and a little too often; 2) he sings. Now as the show's narration (and, one assumes, history) tells us, GG was no warbler, but when Felder bellows, the results are painful to the point of embarrassment. That's a shame, because the show is otherwise a touching, amusing bio, with some fast if sloppy work on the keyboard.

The "Rhapsody in Blue" finale rouses, and Felder wisely takes that sublime middle section ever-so-delicately, making the effect, indeed, rhapsodic.

Cast: 
Hershey Felder
Other Critics: 
TOTALTHEATER Jason Clark ?
Critic: 
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed: 
May 2001