Why ‘Hadestown’ deserves the Tony Award for best musical of the year  Los Angeles Times

It turned out not to be a horrendous year for new Broadway musicals, if you disqualify “King Kong,” lower your IQ for “The Cher Show” and bring earplugs to “Be More Chill.” “The Prom,” a campy musical about Broadway troupers on a social justice mission in the Midwest, was giddy fun until it went fishing for genuine feeling and reeled in earnest predictability. “Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations,” which I caught at the Ahmanson last summer on its groove train to New York, made up in showmanship what it lacked in behind-the-hits drama. “Tootsie,” the rare musical that’s …