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The biggest beneficiary is probably Fela!, the Afrobeat musical that garnered 11 nominations and looks to be the prohibitive favorite for Best Musical. It's an entertaining show and a worthy choice, though I feel bad for two other shows that were given short shrift by the nominators: Twyla Tharp's dance musical Come Fly Away (snubbed for a Best Musical nomination) and Green Day's gussied-up rock concert American Idiot (which did manage a Best Musical nod but not much else). Mostly, though, it struck me as a disappointing season, particularly among shows that clamored to open in the last few weeks before the official end of the season. Here's a look at some of the late-arriving hits and (more often) misses. Bryan Bedder / Getty Images ### The Addams Family  Can't say I held out much hope for this musical based on the ghoulish Charles Addams characters (by way of the campy 1960s TV series). And even Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth couldn't raise the lame material from the dead. There's a frisson at the start, as the curtain rises to reveal a picture-perfect tableau of the family and a few finger snaps of the familiar TV theme song. But it's all downhill from there. Andrew Lippa's songs are unmemorable. Worse is the book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, whose idea of a story (daughter Wednesday gets engaged and brings her straitlaced prospective in-laws for a visit) would barely have sustained a half-hour sitcom episode, much less this dull, nearly interminable evening. Lucas Jackson / Reuters ### La Cage aux Folles  Another show I was not looking forward to, mainly because it seems only yesterday (2004, actually) that it had its last Broadway revival. But this British import, directed by Terry Johnson, gave me a new appreciation of the 1983 Harvey Fierstein–Jerry Herman musical about a middle-aged gay couple trying to pass as a typical family in front of their son's prospective in-laws. (The encounter is one climactic scene in this show; it's the whole evening in The Addams Family.) It's everything a musical should be: funny, tuneful, narratively compact, emotionally true — and with a message too. Kelsey Grammer is excellent as the more conventional half of the couple, while British Shakespearean vet Douglas Hodge, in the flamboyant role of the cross-dressing Albin, gives one of the most intense and affecting performances in a musical I've ever seen. Sara Krulwich / The New York Times / Redux ### Red  John Logan's play about the painter Mark Rothko got rave reviews in both London and New York City, and it boasts a powerful performance by Alfred Molina as the irascible, fiercely iconoclastic artist, around the time he was painting murals for the ritzy Four Seasons restaurant in New York City. On its own terms, the play works, but it struck me as safe, paint-by-numbers drama, another iteration of a familiar formula: crusty old artist meets idealistic young acolyte, and both wind up learning something. (See also: David Margulies' Collected Stories, also on Broadway this spring.) But it's a tony play that could well win the Best Play Tony. Sara Krulwich / The New York Times / Redux ### Fences  Of all the plays in August Wilson's cycle about the black experience in 20th century America, this drama about a former Negro Leagues baseball player whose career frustrations spill over into his family relations was Wilson's greatest popular success. And yet it's one of his less interesting plays: a relatively straightforward family soap opera that doesn't have the mythic poetry or historical echoes of his later, greater works. But it provides a great platform for Denzel Washington to show off his stage chops. Truth be told, there's a little too much Training Day macho bluster in Washington's take on the role — James Earl Jones, who starred in the 1987 original, had more tragic grandeur — but he gives a fiery, charismatic performance and gets fine support from Viola Davis and veteran Wilson interpreter Stephen McKinley Henderson. Sara Krulwich / The New York Times / Redux ### Promises, Promises  The 1968 Burt Bacharach–Hal David–Neil Simon musical had a healthy run on Broadway the first time around, but this lackluster revival hardly makes a case for why. Based on the Billy Wilder film The Apartment, about a brownnosing corporate climber who tries to get ahead by lending his apartment to philandering bosses, it captures almost none of the satiric bite or charm of the original. Kristin Chenoweth has been panned for being miscast in the role of Fran, the suicidal mistress, but at least she can deliver the numbers — especially a lovely, countrified version of "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." The weak spot for me was Sean Hayes, the former co-star of Will and Grace, who is genial enough as the corporate schlemiel but serves mainly to remind us of what the great Jack Lemmon brought to the role. Joan Marcus ### Million Dollar Quartet  This musical re-creating the famous 1956 jam session in Memphis, Tenn., with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis is cravenly commercial and hardly a model of originality, from the onslaught of rock-'n'-roll classics ("Blue Suede Shoes," "Great Balls of Fire") to the predictable backstage story about Sun Records founder Sam Phillips (Hunter Foster) getting squeezed out by the big-money record labels. Still, the impersonations are good, the music hard to resist, and if you're looking for a guilty pleasure, this one will do. Joan Marcus ### Enron  The head scratcher of the spring. Lucy Prebble's fanciful retelling of the fall of — with interludes of music, puppetry and circuslike stage gimmicks — was a hit in London but fell totally flat on Broadway. Part of the problem was timing: the scandal seems almost Victorian after the world-shattering financial meltdown of the past couple of years. But mostly, the theatrical tricks just seem a facile way of tarting up a complex business-morality tale. Best reason for seeing it: Norbert Leo Butz, proudly overbearing as CEO Jeffrey Skilling. Best reason for missing it: the show has already announced it's closing on Sunday, May 9. 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