Ben Platt soars in honey-hearted cabaret-musical of 60s sweethearts
8 / 10
s darkness seeps into the story, we start to make sense of our narrator’s gaps in time and memory. Director David Cromer (The Fear of 13) retains the show’s intimacy by keeping things simple, with a minor magic trick – worth keeping secret – wrapping up the story’s loose threads, though the gut-punch would hit even harder with a trim. Midnight at the Never Get sees music as both heartbreak and cure. With one eye on who’s about to walk in through the door, it reveals what love leaves you with when all else is lost: songs to sing at the top of your lungs to the memory of who you used to be.
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