The Boston Globe, August 3rd, 2000
Do you find the comedy of Eddie Murphy a bit too cerebral? Does the light-rock music of "Magic" 106.7 seem like heavy metal? Then we have the right musical for you, as "The Scarlet Pimpernel" swings into town for a run at the Wang Theatre through Sunday. Or rather a sashay. The Broadway show has drained all the dash out of the Baroness Orczy story made famous by the Leslie Howard movie, in favor of a production that's closer in spirit to a Leslie Nielsen movie. Some of the humor is intentional; the rest of the comedy is just incompetent theater. None of it is particularly funny. Not that the a...
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