Review | The Notebook musical might make you cry, but thats about it The Washington Post
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- "The Notebook" is a page-to-stage adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel
- The musical's creators target feeling at the expense of character, specificity or surprise
- The directors Michael Greif and Schele Williams have assembled a talented array of performers
- But the scrupulously colorblind casting also hamstrings the show
Weepies by Nicholas Sparks are so reliably engineered to produce puddles that The Notebook, which opened at the Schoenfeld Theater on Broadway on Thursday night, sells tissues at the merch counter. [+4128 chars]
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