Decent Melodies, Bad Wigs: ‘A Tale of Two Cities’

Who says you can’t walk out of a Broadway musical humming the score anymore? My subway ride home from “A Tale of Two Cities” was filled with fond musical memories, as stirring martial songs of revolution jostled for primacy with plaintive laments sung by young lovers torn asunder as the turmoil of 18th-century France boiled over. A subsequent look at my Playbill, alas, confirmed that the songs in my head were all from “Les Miserables.” The memories of “Two Cities,” Jill Santoriello’s pell-mell…