REVIEW: ‘Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’ packs plenty of star power but sputters along a splintere
“Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” opened at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Jackson Hall on Tuesday, a show that spins like a disco ball in a flashy and fractured tribute to the Queen of Disco herself. “Summer” whirls across the stage in a feverishly chaotic yet highly danceable parade of events. In an intermissionless run time of one hour and 45 minutes, the show stuffs in 23 of Donna Summer’s groovy, sensual and subversive songs. Though the numbers are well-woven into m