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Community theater oh God.
hey, let no critic compare us tothat.
Or at least someone is.
Were lucky we got the price on this house we did.
Among those muddles: Who exactly are Sylvies parents?
Youre an educated woman.
You are not going into construction.
Fearful and serious and disillusioned.
Magical musical journeys to the past exist specifically to cure people like you.
Wally has stepped out of time gone by to show Sylvie how it all went down.
Which would be fine, if any hint of chemistry between them werent also nonexistent.
A couplet that, admittedly, soars when compared with some of the shows most eye-popping duds.
But the shows second act quickly unravels into outright mess.
Its edifice is built with bricks of banality and mortar of treacle, and it melts before our eyes.
Empire: The Musicalis at New World Stages through September 22.
