David Cassidy in the News
Mini Reviews - New This Week
January 5, 1995
By Joseph Mclellan and Pamela Sommers
BLOOD BROTHERS -- (At the Warner Theatre through Sunday)
Willy Russell's smash-hit soap opera of a musical -- a tale of twin boys separated at birth, raised in totally different households (one wealthy and chilly, the other poor and lively), but inexorably drawn together over the course of 20-some tumultuous years -- could not be more hackneyed or predictable. Despite an unaffected and charming performance by '60s pop star Petula Clark and a surprisingly polished turn by '70s pop star David Cassidy, this show is so noisy, redundant and relentlessly overblown that it leaves one in a kind of sensory stupor. Mired in this clunky and oddly static morass -- there's not a bit of choreography in the almost three-hour show -- Clark, Cassidy and the 12 other cast members still impress. -- Pamela Sommers
