‘Rebecca’ Theater Overview: English-Language Debut is a Debacle

“What a horrible tragedy.” Certainly. That’s the lyric cried out as, in idea, the famously magnificent Cornish dwelling on the coronary heart of the story burns to the bottom on the climax of the musical of “Rebecca.”

Or, fairly, when smoke is pumped into the auditorium, the frontcloth glows purple and forged members race round to startlingly little dramatic impact. Daphne du Maurier’s beloved, near-Gothic romance facilities on a thriller – however the chief thriller here’s what anybody thought they had been doing entrusting a large-scale property (as soon as famously…