Frank Rizzo Sometimes being nice has its rewards.Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film “Mr.
Saturday Night,” which Billy Crystal starred in, directed and co-wrote based on one of his ’80s sketch creations. This sour pickle of an old-school comic as the basis for a musical?
Don’t make me laugh.But a funny thing happened on the way to Broadway. For this new stage adaptation, Crystal and his co-screenwriters Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz have re-envisioned Buddy with warmer tones and softer edges.
They’ve also given him some self-awareness and playfulness, so an audience immediately loves rather than loathes him.With Crystal turning on the impish charm and non-stop zingers, that’s an easy reach — at least until the backstory kicks in and Buddy is revealed to be a bit of a bastard.
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