Sunday, March 23, 2014

"Rocky" (Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway, between West 50th and 51st Streets.)


Rocky

Andy Karl and Margo Seibert


On the streets of Philadelphia in 1975, Rocky Balboa (Andy Carl) may be a thug who earns a living roughing up those who don't promptly pay their debt to a local loan shark. But in the contained world of neighborhood prize fights and prospective sparring partners to champions, he continues to dream of better days, even a future with Adrian (Margo Seibert), the shy and repressed young woman whom he has loved since the fifth grade.

The better days come when, through a fluke, he is given the chance to fight the world's heavyweight champion Apollo Creed (Terrence Archie). Can he turn his life around? Can he train and get himself sufficiently into shape to last fifteen rounds? More importantly, has the hugely successful Academy Award-winning 1976 movie hit Rocky (that spawned five sequels) been marvelously re-conceived and transformed into a colossal Broadway musical? To read the rest of the review and for more information on the production please go to:  http://curtainup.com/rocky14.html

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