Among the many shows I could have seen last week in New York and didn't was one called Beaches – The Musical based on the Bette Midler movie. It opened April 22 and it closes this weekend. Reviews, from what I could see, were quite mixed. The folks who loved it really loved it, the ones who didn't hated hard. There's a theory that when ticket prices seem too high, theatergoers become less willing to gamble on a show about which they've heard even the slightest negative and this may be an instance of that.
As I said, I didn't see it but I really liked this song from it sung by Jessica Vosk and Kelli Barrett. The tunes for the show were written by Mike Stoller, who's 93 years old and who, with his longtime partner Jerry Leiber, wrote hit records like "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock" and "Yakety Yak." Nice to see that he's still writing…