Theater Review: 'Stereophonic' is a brilliant 'Behind the Music' play on Broadway
8 months ago

Theater Review: 'Stereophonic' is a brilliant 'Behind the Music' play on Broadway

The Independent  

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‘Stereophonic’ on Broadway captures the sound of the ’70s.
7 months, 4 weeks ago

‘Stereophonic’ on Broadway captures the sound of the ’70s.

Slate  

Pop culture is full of fictional bands singing songs purpose-made to capture a moment, a sound. Instead it fulfills an assignment: it needs to be 1960s folk music, 1970s guitar rock, 80s hair metal, 90s gangsta rap, and on and on. In this episode, we’re going to use ‘Stereophonic,’ which just opened on Broadway, as a kind of case study …

Theater Review: ‘Stereophonic’ is a brilliant ‘Behind the Music’ play on Broadway
8 months ago

Theater Review: ‘Stereophonic’ is a brilliant ‘Behind the Music’ play on Broadway

Associated Press  

It’s July 1976 in a Northern California recording studio and the rock ‘n’ roll band cutting their latest album is exhausted and wary. David Zinn’s marvelous set, with the engineers manipulating dials and faders in the office-hangout spot, in front of a glassed-off recording space, allows for multiple conversations at once, including one intense argument completely offstage that the engineers …

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