TheaterReview 🎭 MarriottTheatre's revival of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story soars. | ✍️ JackHelbig
is a clever piece of work, mixing the best elements of a biographical play, a jukebox musical, and a cover band concert into a bubbly, tightly written confection that reveals in 100 minutes why Buddy Holly was great and loved as a songwriter and performer and why Don McLean would call February 3, 1959—the day he was killed in a plane crash—“the day the music died.
Personally, I found the sections of the show that portray Holly and company in the studio composing Holly’s hits the most fascinating. They are probably also the most fictionalized, since the creation of songs in the studio is notoriously slow, painstaking, and, to those not in on the creative process, tedious.
Such is the case with the Marriott production. Not a moment of stage time is wasted; every performer is on point, every performance pitch-perfect. Director and choreographer Amber Mak uses Marriott’s challenging in-the-round stage well, taking care to choreograph scenes so the actors are constantly moving; no audience member ever has to look at the back of the actors for very long.
Taking the lead, Kieran McCabe makes a very compelling Holly, winning us with his acting and wowing us with his guitar playing. McCabe is not alone. The actors playing Holly’s band, the Crickets, also play instruments, as do most of the other actors. This adds another layer of realism to the performances and most likely accounts for the show’s live concert-level energy.
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