These now come at you with some tiresome regularity in the overcaffeinated, overstuffed and virtually charmless version being readied for Broadway in a tryout that marked its official opening Sunday. As embodied by the appealing Sophia Anne Caruso, Lydia in this version is obsessed with mortality and the afterlife because she misses her mother, who died six months earlier. From left, Caruso, Rob McClure and Kerry Butler in “Beetlejuice.” (Matthew Murphy)The ways in which Timbers and company try to massage the movie material never create a convincing argument for “Beetlejuice” as a musical. Directed by Alex Timbers. Through Nov. 18 at National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. 202-628-6161 or thenationaldc.org.

Source: Washington Post November 05, 2018 03:00 UTC