‘The Connector’ Off Broadway Review: Scott Bakula Gets Smeared With News Print

Jonathan Marc Sherman and Jason Robert Brown’s new musical attempts to locate the source of fake news

Scott Bakula and Ben Levi Ross in MCC Theater's "The Connector" (Credit: Joan Marcus)
Scott Bakula and Ben Levi Ross in MCC Theater's "The Connector" (Credit: Joan Marcus)

“The Connector” is pitch perfect regarding a magazine’s office politics, and it’s way off key on the much bigger picture of fake news. Jonathan Marc Sherman and Jason Robert Brown’s conflicted new musical had its world premiere Tuesday at the MCC Theater.

First, the good news — of which I know something about, having spent over 40 years as an editor and reporter at various magazines and newspapers. Most of them are defunct now, but that’s another story. Few, if any, of those periodicals I worked for were quite as illustrious as The Connector — which, by the way, is a terrible name for a magazine, not to mention a musical.

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