Aisle View: Fish Are Jumpin'

Intelligent, unconventional, non-cookie-cutter Broadway musicals are so rare that we try to go out of our way to encourage those that come along. Susan Stroman's Big Fish, at the Neil Simon, is such a one. Based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 screenplay by John August, this chronicle of an Alabama traveling salesman who can't resist telling fish tales offers a larger-than-life hero who fits right at home on the musical comedy stage. Norbert Leo Butz, as Big-Fish-in-a-small-pond...