Mixed Reviews for 'Monsoon Wedding' Musical Adaptation

Mira Nair's "Monsoon Wedding" musical adaptation opened at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, but the balance between its shambolic plot lines and Indian-pop-meets-marching-band songs failed to build on themselves or one another, leaving the intertwined tale of love and obligation to unravel as fast as it spins. The musical tries to maintain the quick-cut effect while also squeezing the material into a traditional musical theater format, but the book is all over the place, and the production seems to think in camera terms, as if a lens were still directing the audience's attention when in fact nothing is.