'Beaches' Broadway Review: Even the Legendary Mike Stoller Can't Prevent This Flotsam From Washing Ashore

"Beaches" is best remembered today as the kitschy classic that inspired Paul Rudnick to lampoon it in his screenplay "In & Out." In a segment that's a film within that 1997 comedy, a gay soldier is outed and court-martialed when it's discovered he hides a VHS copy of "Beaches," starring Bette Midler, in his locker. "Beaches" is now a musical that opened Wednesday at the Majestic Theater, and for one exhilarating moment, it appears that this show will live up to its camp status in the world of movies. It comes when the two friends Bertie (Kelli Barrett) and Cee Cee (Jessica . . .