Elf The Musical
The entertaining 2010 Broadway musical adaptation of the Will Ferrell film comedy returns for another limited holiday engagement, its fourth encore run in New York City. Grey Henson (Shucked) dons his gay apparel to play Santa’s least helpful helper: Buddy, a human boy raised as an elf at the North Pole who finds his way to NYC in search of his birth family. The amiable score is by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin (The Prom); Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone) and the late Thomas Meehan (The Producers) handled the adaptation. This latest production is directed by Philip Wm. McKinley (Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark), whose 2022 restaging has been a hit in London.