New York‘War Paint” isn’t so much a musical as a pitch. It’s easy enough to imagine it: “I know—let’s do a musical about the Helena Rubinstein-Elizabeth Arden feud! Two tough-as-industrial-sandpaper businesswomen who make cosmetics and hate each other’s guts! We’ll get Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole to be the stars, and we’ll get the ‘Grey Gardens’ guys to write the show. What’s not to like?” And up to a point, the goods get delivered: The stars are starry, the sets are glossy, and the book is full of snappy...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 07, 2017 00:22 UTC