![]() Saturday Night | Photograph: Courtesy Matthew MurphyĬrystal has adapted the book from his own screenplay with his original writing partners, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel the new score features jaunty tunes by Jason Robert Brown and lightly blue lyrics by Amanda Green. Saturday Night he honors their history with a sweet, slight, nostalgic musical comedy. “Eleven of the best years of my life.”) In Mr. Crystal has been playing this alter kocker alter ego since at least Saturday Night Live in 1985, and Buddy's type of Catskills-and-Friars-Club cut-up is embedded in his comic style: He has deep affection and respect for the generation of comedians that Buddy represents, and he keeps their spirit alive in his timing, his rhythms, his soulful aggression. He doesn’t need it anymore, but he never really did: He has Buddy in his bones. Thirty years ago, Crystal wore aging makeup to play this role on film. Can he seize it? Or will he be his own schlemiel yet again? (“Don’t get me started!” is his starting line.) But when his face mistakenly pops up in an awards-show In Memoriam sequence, Young gets a chance to revive his career from the dead. He’s a tough cut of brisket, and decades after a career-ending tirade on live TV in the 1950s, he’s been reduced to grouchy gigs on the Jewish retirement-home circuit. In this musical adaptation of his 1992 film, Crystal stars as a dried-up nightclub comic named Buddy Young Jr.-an ironic name, since he’s far from young, and he’s never been anybody's buddy. Saturday Night, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Billy Crystal talks loudly and carries a big shtick in Mr.
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