“Bullets” is that rarity, a musical without an original score. But the two dozen vintage songs culled from the Tin Pan Alley archives to fit the 1920s timeframe have been chosen with as much intelligence as affection.
That old Dixieland floor-stomper, “Tiger Rag,” opens the show with a joyful blast, as the Atta-Girls, a line of chorines in barely there tiger costumes (by the inimitable William Ivey Long), strut their stuff at Nick’s Club. (Santo Loquasto’s colorful scene settings are the soul of wit.) And how sweet it is to hear Nick Valenti, the boss gangster played by boss gangster-player Vincent Pastore (Big Pussy of “The Sopranos” fame) croaking Andy Razaf’s sexy lyrics to “Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You” to Olive (Helene Yorke), the chippy gold-digger nagging him to make her a Broadway star.
Bullets Over Broadway
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