Rocky Review: The Italian Stallion on Broadway

Halfway through Rocky, a crowd-pleasing musical that’s a faithful stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1976 movie, the lights flicker to show Rocky Balboa, his face shrouded in a grey hoodie, training for his chance-in-a-lifetime boxing match against the heavyweight champion of the world.   Rocky is shadow-boxing upstage, then the lights blink again and he is...