an early casualty of the pandemic’s first wave and the worst possible April Fool’s joke. Related: A Strange Loop review – Michael R Jackson’s thrilling Broadway triumph This gives The Bedwetter – clever, comic, small-scale splendid – a mournful metatext and a kind of terrible irony.
Because The Bedwetter includes many bad jokes, nearly all of them delivered by the 10-year-old Sarah (Zoe Glick, a ball of big pubescent energy), a precocious misfit.
And it is also a musical about taking the worst that life gives you, accepting it and moving on. Which is of course what The Bedwetter itself has done.
The show opens in 1980 or thereabouts when Sarah, a fifth-grader, has moved to a new town, a consequence of her parents’ divorce.
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