★★★★★
It’s got starlight, it’s got sweet dreams and, yes, it’s got rhythm too. You almost feel you couldn’t ask for anything more but this Gershwin musical also has that indefinable something called grace, a lightness that would out-soufflé even Julia Child, and a joie de vivre that lifts it, and us, all night long. The show, first seen in Paris in 2014 and on Broadway in 2015, was inspired by the 1951 film with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron but has its own embellishments and balletic choreography that at times takes your breath away.
It’s Paris, 1945. The Nazis have left but the streets remain dark and fearful. Liberated Parisiennes dance in balletic leaps and slides but you can see that this is a