Hot Feet, the new musical with songs old and new by Earth, Wind & Fire making its world premiere at the National Theater, inevitably will be compared to its juke-box-soundtrack predecessors, from the Billy Joel-driven Movin’ Out to the Beach Boys bash Good Vibrations. And while those shows are frequently derided by the theater-snob community, Hot Feet’s curse is that it may not even connect with mainstream audiences: it lacks the guilty-pleasure infectuousness of a…

Is there any working actor with a more powerful, beautiful voice than Broadway’s “Last Great Leading Man,” Brian Stokes Mitchell? The handsome baritone’s performance last night at the Kennedy Center leaves little room for doubt. All gushing aside, Mitchell delivered a wonderful concert, pairing with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by another Broadway great, A Chorus Line’s composer Marvin Hamlisch. Though the pair’s banter was occasionally hokey and strained, this hardly detracted from the…