Ben Walker’s ‘Bloody’ Jackson Falters on Broadway: John Simon

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“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” a youthful romp of a rock musical taking a caricatural view of Jackson and American history, has transferred to Broadway’s big league in what may be an act of pride that goes before a fall.

A show that has already played in the more intimate quarters of Los Angeles, Williamstown and New York’s Public Theater now rattles around in a big Broadway house for which it is not grown-up enough.