Jack Kelly (Corey Cott), leader and legend among the newsies, heads the strike that results from an increase in the fees the boys are charged for the newspapers they hawk on the streets
The staging is minimal in the extreme and compared with, say, “Power Of Trinity” there isn’t much dancing. But “Diablo Love” is powerful stuff and overwhelms and negates its shortcomings. with song and story.
“Do you really think that a man fucked a frog?”
Watching Richardson’s Bowles, it had the ring of truth and observation. A realness but realness we don’t want to really know. I prefer Minelli’s star turn but who wouldn’t want to see that? But Richardson was true. It was acting at the highest level
while it would be hard pressed to be lamer than the 1970s movie of “A Little Night Music” starring Liz Taylor, the cast seems equally ridiculous so who knows?.
From Macbeth to Haile Selasie, Kings abound, from King Kong to Caligula to Faust, monsters are around and from Al Bowly , Optical, Howling Wolf, Alicia Bridges and Tomas Doncker there is music in the cafes at night and revolution in the theatrics of Randy Weiner and Alfred Preisser
While for the audience and maybe even the band, this might be an exercise in nostalgia, there is no working pop band who wouldn’t be better for a viewing of such precise and beautiful musicianship
From movies to commercials, hip hop samples to cover songs, wedding singers to Karoake bars, Marvin and Motown is part of our lives.
On a busmans holiday from the Wrecking Ball tour, long term fan of all things garage Steve Van Zandt put together a part “Jersey Boys” part concert got together with the four men from the Rascals and had them perform together for the first time in 40 years last in a mix of rock and Broadway show “Once Upon A Dream”
the news that Broadway is planning a Carole King musical makes you think the following: 1. The score? Not a problem,. we’ve got it covered, could easily give “Jersey Boys” and that “Motown” one a run for their money. 2. The Book? Not so fast…
that mix of vulnerability and ego, ecstatic foul mouthed exuberance and self-aware been there done that in your face honesty, is a full on look into one of the greatest artists, and celebrities, ever. It is a disaster play, and also not really a play
