REVIEW: 'BEETLEJUICE' IS BIG, BOLD, AND A BIT MUCH
8 / 10
Justin Collette’s Beetlejuice is filthy and bawdy but rarely truly loathsome. Part stand-up comedian vying for laughs with a rapid-fire succession of punchlines, and part queer, hyper-sexed Frank-n-Furter, this jagged-up, lonely-hearted prisoner of the underworld does inspire laughter, and his political jokes land especially well (“I’m invisible, powerless, like a gay Republican”); however, he’s everywhere all at once, visually represented in one of the better musical numbers wherein every member of the ensemble becomes a Beetlejuice clone, and he’s working awfully hard for less payoff than anyone wants.
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