Two years after Buddy the Elf made Broadway audiences believe in an unlikely theatrical adaptation of a Will Ferrell movie — an adaptation without Ferrell — "Elf" the musical is back with yet another lead actor and all the joy we've come to expect from the industrious toy-maker in green tights.
In the opening moments of "Hold These Truths," Jeanne Sakata's eloquent one-man drama about civil rights giant Gordon Hirabayashi, the reflective protagonist recites a Japanese proverb he learned from his father while growing up on a farm in Washington state during the Great Depression: "Deru kugi wa utareru," or, "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down."
While Matthew Broderick clearly can take a joke, it might be best if he skips the latest edition of the theater spoof "Forbidden Broadway."
In these days where celebrity divorce is in the headlines, you've gotta tip your hat to the enduring and iconic marriage of Macbeth and his Lady. He's got the ambition, she's got the boundless nerve, and together, they can achieve the unthinkable.
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