'Giant' and 'Murder Ballads,' musicals that break the mold
Photo credit: Joseph Moran | Brian d'Arcy James (from left), Kate Baldwin and PJ Griffith star in "Giant."
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Musicals, especially musicals on Broadway, just seem to appear. The curtain goes up, when there even is a curtain these days, and we don't need to know anything beyond what appears on the stage. How many workshops, how many brainstorming sessions and out-of-town productions were sweated through before whatever happens finally happens? Who knows? Who cares?
But how instructive it is, in an...
