A Night Without Janis Joplin: A New Musical About the Singer Hits All the Songs but Lacks a Story 'A Night With Janis Joplin.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) Oh, lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz, a color TV, a night on the town—or at least a Broadway musical about 20th-century popular music that isn’t awful? The latest entrant in that category is A Night with Janis Joplin , which opened Thursday night at the Lyceum Theatre. It stars a husky-voiced white soul singer named Mary Bridget Davies as ...
Oct. 16, 2013 - The New York Observer