Rocky - true to the story

This is a well done musical adaptation of the Classic movie.  It is a crowd pleaser throughout with the audience cheering Rocky on at every turn.  Andy Karl is a great Rocky, understated just enough to be the Rocky we all know, but tasked with an incredible series of fighting and running and singing tasks.  Other performers do a great job of portraying the characters we all remember from the movie.

The sets are great and instill all of the cliches from the movie onto the Broadway stage.  The fight scene is incredible including the boxing ring that comes out into the audience, the jumbotrons, the TV close-ups and the great make-up job as the fight progresses.  What an ending!!!

And a special shout-out to the sides of beef - what a cheer went up from the audience when they came down.

Not the best musical of the season, but a superb crowd-pleaser that should last for a long while.

Well worth seeing.

Rocky

★★★