ifilus
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And now for the latest heart-rending episode in Broadway's own reality soap opera, "When Bad Shows Happen to Great Songwriters."
If you happen to be among the masochists who make a habit of attending the entertainments called jukebox musicals, in which pop hits are beaten up by singing robots, you may think you've seen it all: the neutering of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in "Good Vibrations," the canonizing (and shrinking) of John Lennon as a misunderstood angel-child in "Lennon," and the forcible transformation of Johnny Cash from Man in Black to Sunshine Cowboy in "Ring of Fire."
But even these spectacles of torture with a smile, frightening though they may be, are but bagatelles compared with the systematic steamrolling of Bob Dylan that occurs in "The Times They Are A-Changin'," which opened last night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. (NY Times)
Watch the 'Like A Rollin Stone' production number:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/10/25/icymi-bob-dylan-is-like-a-rollin-over-in-his-grave/
If you happen to be among the masochists who make a habit of attending the entertainments called jukebox musicals, in which pop hits are beaten up by singing robots, you may think you've seen it all: the neutering of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in "Good Vibrations," the canonizing (and shrinking) of John Lennon as a misunderstood angel-child in "Lennon," and the forcible transformation of Johnny Cash from Man in Black to Sunshine Cowboy in "Ring of Fire."
But even these spectacles of torture with a smile, frightening though they may be, are but bagatelles compared with the systematic steamrolling of Bob Dylan that occurs in "The Times They Are A-Changin'," which opened last night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. (NY Times)
Watch the 'Like A Rollin Stone' production number:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/10/25/icymi-bob-dylan-is-like-a-rollin-over-in-his-grave/
