Branagh and Love's Labour's Lost all but will themselves into liftoff. They achieve it, and in doing so, they somehow make it right to our pleasure centers with their generous embrace of stardust and pizazz.
The effect is weird but it, actually, kind of works, illuminating both Shakespeare and the artifice of musicals.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The leaden bits do bring the proceedings to a screeching halt too many times, but the costumes are breathtaking, and the details (like color-coordinated martinis) are dazzling.