Groff Stars In “How To Succeed”
This week in London, the creamy white Jonathan Groff (right) starred with Cynthia Erivo (left) in a concert version of “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.” Matt Wolf reviews the effort: ‘Vocally, it took the hugely likeable Groff a while to warm up in what in any case is an unforgiving space for musicals-in-concert. And it might have been better had Groff crooned slightly less, saving any vocal embellishments for some other time and place. But he adjusted as he went along and in acting terms nailed the demands of a tricky character to get right, managing to be more casually cunning than the hyper-eager Daniel Radcliffe in his criminally under-appreciated performance in 2011 and less nerdy-creepy than Matthew Broderick, the last of whom inexplicably won a 1995 Tony for an earlier Broadway revival.
