‘The Notebook’ review: Broadway show will make superfans cry, but that’s it

[ad_1] Nicholas Sparks’ crybabies are so reliably designed to produce puddles that “The Notebook,” which opened at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theater on Thursday night, sells tissues at the merchandise counter. Sentiment is the lodestar of this page-to-stage adaptation, and for those looking for an excuse to shed tears, who couldn’t use one nowadays? – you will … Read more

How Ingrid Michaelson turned ‘The Notebook’ into a musical

[ad_1] In October 2022, Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune reviewed “The Notebook” when it performed at the Goodman Theater and praised that Michaelson had written “an absolutely magnificent set of songs.” But he knows that, given all the changes made to the staging of the story, fans of the book and the movie could … Read more