Theater review

ROMY AND MICHELE: THE MUSICAL

Two hours and 30 minutes with one intermission. At Stage 42.

The off-Broadway show “Romy and Michele: The Musical” cuts out “High School Reunion” from the title.

Punchier, I guess.

If only that eraser was put to better use.

The sorry excuse for a stage adaptation, which opened Tuesday at Stage 42, takes a quirky 90-minute film that was completely reliant on the charm and chemistry of its leads Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow, pumps in almost an hour of formless filler and pulverizes its personality to the point of being practically unrecognizable.

Devolving into commodity slop is a curious move for an underdog cult comedy ostensibly about the drawbacks of pretending to be someone other than yourself.

Yet that’s what this entire exercise in

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