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Everything good about the musical at New York Theatre Workshop lives there in that filmand so much else besides.
Essentially, one synthesizer chord renders the nostalgia-prone weak, two leave us helpless.
Those 30-year-old musical puppet-strings still work.
The audience instantly starts grooving along, relieved to feel that synthpop leash yanking at our spirits again.
In minutes, the bad news comes.
But other voices are louder.
In Enda Walshs adaptation, that introductory music is Depeche Mode.
For the most part, the cast is presented as scrappy but loveable, and all in it together.
Is it all right that thisSing Streetseems softer than its parent?
It depends on what you need from it.
Itll give you joy, anyway, which is saying a mouthful.
And the conduits for that joy are the three main players: OConnor, Devlin and Halper.
Devlin has command and vulnerability and freshnessnot three things you often find together.
Sing Streetis at New York Theatre Workshop through January 26.
