Because I just can't believe this little item is serious.
A Dirty Harry musical? Leave aside that potential songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, with or without Egyptians, is weird to the zth degree ("Man With the Lightbulb Head," anybody?) Leave aside that we're talking about trying to translate gritty urban drama into a musical. Leave aside that we're talking about an actor being believable as a cop named Dirty Harry and singing. Leave aside that we're talking about Dirty frickin' Harry singing.
No, wait, you can't leave all that aside. If you can fit your head around a Dirty Harry musical, then you can fit your head around Saturn and any three of its moons.
Plus, whoever did the write-up for Broadway.com must not have seen the movie, as the piece claims Harry says "Do you feel lucky" in Magnum Force. Of course, that's the line from Dirty Harry. Magnum Force's catchphrase is, "A man's got to know his limitations."
One surely hopes that Broadway will not decide to try to get lucky and will know its limitations, and just go produce that big global warming musical Al Gore wants to see.
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