Moving to Broadway after its smash 2018 run at PublicTheaterNY, writer-director Conor McPherson's Bob Dylan alt-musical is a miraculous antidote to jukebox fatigue
No disrespect to Bob Dylan, one of the greatest songwriters in modern American music, but hearing his tunes sung by the melodious voices inis a revelation — the second time even more than the first. Moving to Broadway after aat the Public Theater, this brilliantly conceived project from Irish writer-director Conor McPherson could be called the anti-jukebox musical.
The other residents include Nick and Elizabeth's 20-year-old son Gene , an aspiring writer and budding alcoholic whose rancor is driving away his sweetheart Kate ; and Marianne , raised by the Laines since being left behind by guests as a foundling child 19 years earlier. An African American exposed to virulent racism from a young age, Marianne is now pregnant and refuses to name the father, prompting Nick to try to marry her off to crotchety shoe repairman Mr. Perry .
Considering the familiar Americana cloth from which these characters are cut, what's remarkable about McPherson's writing is the fine-grained textures woven into the drama. While it's set in Dylan's hometown 6½ years before he was born, this is a period piece that resonates today with its depiction of poverty, hardship, anxiety and trauma. The lonely prairie here is a figurative state of mind in an America of broken dreams.
For such a large-scale ensemble piece it's extraordinary that every character is so vividly etched — and all of them played with naturalistic brushstrokes; there's none of the usual artificially big "musical-theater acting." But it's the women in particular who are wonderful, leaving indelible impressions.
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