The new musical at the Pasadena Playhouse about pop music ambition, "Breaking Through," never breaks out. One-dimensional characters, self-conscious darkness and a story derived from every mama-make-me-a-star yarn you've ever seen, especially "A Star Is Born," sink interest quickly. In librettist Kirsten Guenther's telling, the music industry is a Dante's Inferno populated solely by voguing... Read more »
SOURCE: Variety at 04:58PM on November 5, 2015