Is a musical Broadway therapy session. The show is intense! and mad good, pun intended. It's about the average dysfunctional suburban family haunted by the image/ghost (played by a male actor) of their son who died when he was an infant. If there was any fault with this play, it was that the plot was structured in a fairly conventional way. Mom and Dad are unhappy, Daughter is ignored, Dead Son represents the unconscious. Mom is emotional; Dad is the stalwart supporter. Daughter wants to escape in all ways possible.
If the plot is a little well worn, the script really brings it back to life. The writing was at the perfect emotional level, getting maximum impact. And when you have incredible Broadway talents singing their hearts out in these rock-ballads about their deepest issues, it really works. I cried at the end and felt like I had just worked through some of my own issues, although this time with awesome songs! Quite the experience. It reminded me how Times Square can seem so irritating and cheesy, but within some of those theater doors there is a whole other world that justifies the throngs of tourists. It's Unique New York :)
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