Beetlejuice

After giving up the ghost on Broadway twice before, this 2019 musical returns anew in a limited-run visit from the show's national tour. Adapted from Tim Burton's well-loved 1988 film comedy and directed by Alex Timbers, Beetlejuice stars Justin Collette as the ooky title character, a demon hired by a kindly dead couple to rid their former home of its distasteful live inhabitants and their miserable goth daughter. The book is by Scott Brown and Anthony King, and the original score is by Eddie Perfect. Notable creative design elements—including David Korins’s haunted-house set, which seems to buckle in the middle and stretch at the edges, and William Ivey Long’s costumes, a batty vision of colors and patterns at war—help make the show spectacularly weird.—Adam Feldman