http://nypress.com/a-lower-calling/ New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://nypress.com/a-lower-calling/#comment-10806 Christopher Zara Thu, 10 May 2012 01:55:00 +0000 http://nypress.com/?p=45966#comment-10806 I saw this show, and Mr. Strassler is pretty much on the money. Hopefully, this well-intentioned misfire will cool the trend of mining early-90s movies for Broadway. (Doug, you forgot to mention Ghost.) The film version of Leap of Faith film was never a great movie, but Steve Martin committed to the role as best he could, and the script presented the subject matter with an interesting ambiguity: Is Jonas really ripping people off or is he just selling them the fairy tales they want to believe in? None of that depth is present in the musical — a fact that might have been forgivable had the right performer been cast in the role of Jonas.  

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