Reception
Frank Rich, in his review for The New York Times wrote: " Broadway Bound contains some of its author's most accomplished writing to date -passages that dramatize the timeless, unresolvable bloodlettings of familial existence as well as the humorous conflicts one expects. But the seamless merging of laughter, character and emotion that ignited Biloxi Blues is only intermittently achieved here. There are stretches, especially in Act I, when Broadway Bound isn't funny or moving but just reportorial and expository, with plot twists and thematic invocations piling up undigested, like the heavier courses at an attenuated Passover seder."
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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