There may be a special circle of hell — or at least a spot on the wall at Joe Allen restaurant — for “Only Human,” the purgatorial new musical that opened Monday at Off Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clement’s. Yes, this is a musical starring Gary Busey as God — and I confess I was hoping the show might fall in the so-bad-it’s-good camp. Or even just the camp camp. But the results are sadly more earth-bound.
Instead of focusing on its Almightiest asset, “Only Human” centers almost entirely on an unholy trinity of heaven’s middle management as they workshop the creation of humanity — and then its fall-out: Lou (Mike Squillante), short for Lucifer, is a vain know-it-all who wants to craft the new species in his own image; Jay (Evan Maltby), short for you-know-who, is the ne’er-do-well stoner son of the Boss who uses a pizza box as a pillow; and Maggie (Kim Steele), short for Mary Magdalene, is the highly competent and easily dismissed woman forced to make a case for gender equity: “I think my vagina is a blessing — hashtag blessed.”