Theatre Review: There are charming performances and cheesy disco to be had in Hanover Tavern’s stroll down memory lane.
by Rich Griset
Perhaps it’s because I wasn’t alive in the era portrayed in “They’re Playing Our Song,” the musical now showing at Hanover Tavern, but I can’t help comparing it to the classic 1970s film “Annie Hall.”
It was “Annie Hall” that solidified Woody Allen’s rom-com formula, humorously following a neurotic nebbish who falls in love with a beautiful, free-spirited woman in New York. Of similar set-up (and similarly autobiographical) is “They’re Playing Our Song,” based on the real-life relationship between composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager.…[ Read more ]