The joke is, of course, that BBNG aren't smoothing out OF, because OF are a highly musical concern: if anything, their version of Bastard, in a medley with Gucci Mane's Lemonade, is more raucous than the original, which found Tyler on the psychiatrist's couch, in a self-lacerating but sepulchral mood.
As we discovered in early December, Macaulay Culkin is in a Velvet Underground cover band called Pizza Underground, whose only musical concern is spreading the good word of pizza.
Their musical concerns a middle-aged, recently unemployed New Jersey man who re-connects with his former garage-band buddies (Sept . 24to Oct. 27).
Set in 1963, in a suburban enclave of Lake Charles, Louisiana, the musical concerns two stranded souls: eight-year-old Noah Gellman (Harrison Chad), who is suffering from the twin griefs of a recently deceased mother and a newly acquired stepmother, and his family's saturnine maid, Caroline Thibodeaux Tonya Pinkinss).
In other words, his musical concerns are pragmatic, rather than academic.
As to "Let it Be" itself, it's being described chiefly as a tribute rock concert by a talented Beatles cover band, not a musical play or even a jukebox musical concerned with dramatic storytelling.
That doesn't mean they are not superb musicians; but it suggests that perhaps non-musical concerns are taking precedence.
Boasting a stellar French cast that includes Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart and Fanny Ardant, it's a camp musical melodrama concerning a murdered patriarch and eight colourful female suspects and the most enjoyable film I saw during the festival.
What is it about this musical — which concerns a bunch of kids gathering in a park in New York's East Village to welcome in the Age of Aquarius as one of their tribe goes off to war — that draws us to it, still?
My parents, like all good parents in the mid-forties, took me to see "Oklahoma!" After that, as far as musicals were concerned, I was on my own.
By Robert Gottlieb October 27, 2014 My parents, like all good parents in the mid-forties, took me to see "Oklahoma!" After that, as far as musicals were concerned, I was on my own.
