Theater review

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES

Two hours and 30 minutes with one intermission. At the St. James Theatre, 246 W. 44th Street.

At the center of the Broadway musical “The Queen of Versailles” is an unfinished, 90,000-square-foot house in Florida — one of the biggest private homes in America.

Misguided, over-the-top, well-intended and seemingly beyond repair, the mega manse is meant to act as a metaphor for the American Dream.

Well, keep dreamin’.

Instead, and within minutes, the Orlando-area colossus comes to represent the criminally bad show it’s in; a wrecking ball to good taste that opened Sunday night at the St. James Theatre.

Both Versailles, a very real property in Windermere, and “The Queen of Versailles” ultimately beg an identical question: Why on earth did they do thi

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