The score by Ingrid Michaelson is key. Characters sing what regular people feel in such circumstances, and the songs deliver that directly to the audience.
Joy Woods and Ryan Vasquez in “The Notebook: The Musical” on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York. The 2004 movie “The Notebook,” which starred Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams and tells the story of a fraught romantic relationship from optimistic youth to poignant old age, was dismissed by movie critics as various shades of sentimental pap. Audiences, who typically find greater value in the simple, human longing of ordinary folks, could not have disagreed more vehemently.
There are two main reasons why this show works. Most important is the songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, who might be a Broadway newcomer but whose lyrics eschew mawkish pitfalls in favor of simple, direct communication of intense but familiar emotions through melody and song.
See what I mean? The whole score is like that: characters sing what regular people feel in those circumstances. And while Michaelson’s music is more folk-roots-bluegrass-country than traditional Broadway, it’s what this material needed. You never feel like Allie and Noah are from Brooklyn. Maryann Plunkett , Joy Woods , and Jordan Tyson in “The Notebook: The Musical” on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York.
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