Robert McElwaine and Bob Bain's enervating biomusical tracks the ascent of Danny Kaye (Brian Childers) from borscht belt tummler to international star, with help from his sharp-witted wife and songwriter, Sylvia Fine (Kimberly Faye Greenberg). After years of playing the special Kaye, Childers's clowning has hardened into waxen freneticism.—Adam Feldman
