Watering a dry soul

I review the new musical version of The Visitor in today’s Wall Street Journal. Here’s an excerpt.
*  *  *Turning a perfect movie into a stage musical is almost always a fool’s game. The only way the results are guaranteed to work is if you add a perfect score, as Stephen Sondheim did with “A Little Night Music” and David Yazbek did with “The Band’s Visit.” Otherwise, the resulting show rarely makes an impression sufficiently st