Of art and amplification: thoughts on "Little Dancer"

I'm late weighing in on "Little Dancer," the Degas-based, Susan-Stroman-directed musical that played at the Kennedy Center last month and that may or may not go on to Broadway. You can read two contrasting reviews from my colleagues Peter Marks and Sarah Kaufman, but, having written before the show opened about how works of visual art have been transformed onto the musical stage, I wanted to weigh in with my own observation that to my eye, the most successful thing about the show was how well it...