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Review: Death Takes a Holiday by Frank Scheck

It’s not easy to kill Death Takes a Holiday. This old chestnut about the Grim Reaper taking a much needed vacation was a Broadway hit way back in the 1920s, spawned a successful 1934 movie adaptation starring Fredric March, and was the basis for the much maligned 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, starring Brad Pitt. Its latest incarnation is an off-Broadway musical presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company featurin…

SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:22AM on July 22, 2011

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