As a critic, I feel it’s my responsibility to tell you what’s wrong with “Tootsie,” the musical comedy that opened on Tuesday at the Marquis Theater. Let me tell you instead what’s right. With few exceptions — including, this season, “The Prom” — musical comedies today are comedic only in the sense that the protagonist doesn’t croak, and musical only in the sense that he does. “Tootsie,” with a book by Robert Horn and songs by David Yazbek, has somehow avoided all those traps. But it’s no longer a bad soap opera that Dorothy stars in; naturally, it’s a bad musical comedy.

Source: New York Times April 24, 2019 01:41 UTC