The Dylan Musical: Quite Possibly Not As Good As “Starlight Express”

changing1.jpgFrom this week’s New Yorker review of the Twyla Tharp-directed The Times They Are A Changin’:

In her show, the owner and ringmaster of the circus is Captain Ahrab (Thom Sesma), an evil tyrant who abuses his innocent son, Coyote (Michael Arden); his kind, worse-for-the-wear girlfriend, Cleo (Lisa Brescia); and everyone else in his vicinity–namely, six Pierrot-like clowns and Cleo’s dog, whom he eventually garrotes. Then the times, they change. Coyote pairs off with Cleo, and the clowns kill Ahrab. (Or I think he died–it was hard to tell, because the scene was lit only by flashlights, but he didn’t reappear after that.) Coyote takes over the circus, which now becomes a democratic organization: everyone gets ringmaster wear. They all sing “Forever Young,” and the curtain comes down.

There’s also a finale in which Eugene Levy comes out and sings “Hurricane” in a giant plush Rubin Carter costume, but at that point, most of the audience is already out the door.


It Ain’t Him, Babe
[New Yorker]

 
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  1. Glenn Danzig  |   Posted on Oct 31st, 2006

    i dunno, i think id like this. coyotes, arabs and clowns always do it for me, so long as they’re in that exact order.

    my new album, Return To Nookie Mountain is out in mid-2009.

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