Stereophonic on Broadway, it's an interesting story
April 24, 2024 7:50 PM Subscribe
Making Real Music for a Fake Band [43m] is from Slate's Decoder Ring podcast that digs pretty deep into a particular Broadway play that is the current Hot Ticket In Town [Playbill, Stereophonic]. It also digs into making real things for fake things. The episode looks at a multitude of excellent fake things you already know, and then the playwright David Adjmi and Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire get into the show itself... A fictional Fleetwood Mac-esque band in the studio struggling to record an album of songs like this [1m45s] in the mid-Seventies. Here's a "retrospective trailer" looking back at its developmental run at Playwrights Horizons. [43s]
The cast includes, fresh from Succession, Julia Canfield, who is here interviewed for 25 minutes by the boys from Keep It about her experience learning to be a rock musician for this show and other things.
I am VERY interested in this show but there's not much there yet!
The cast includes, fresh from Succession, Julia Canfield, who is here interviewed for 25 minutes by the boys from Keep It about her experience learning to be a rock musician for this show and other things.
I am VERY interested in this show but there's not much there yet!
Big Fleetwood Mac fan here: I saw it a few weeks ago. I can't speak to the rest of your post about real/fake things, but the music had the right feel.
As the costumes: I didn't spot anything that I thought was off from back in the day. And there were lots of costume changes. At one point, the Christie McVie character wore a skirt that looked like my favorite skirt from my teenage years - mid-calf, lightweight, red/brown/black print. Ironically, I used to call it my Stevie Nicks skirt.
posted by AMyNameIs at 2:56 PM on April 25 [1 favorite]
As the costumes: I didn't spot anything that I thought was off from back in the day. And there were lots of costume changes. At one point, the Christie McVie character wore a skirt that looked like my favorite skirt from my teenage years - mid-calf, lightweight, red/brown/black print. Ironically, I used to call it my Stevie Nicks skirt.
posted by AMyNameIs at 2:56 PM on April 25 [1 favorite]
Ok, the 'Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire' had me scratching my head, so I just went over to wikipedia and see they were at Something in the Water last year and I literally could have walked to see them and now they're broke up?
WHAAA?!
posted by daHIFI at 4:12 PM on April 25
WHAAA?!
posted by daHIFI at 4:12 PM on April 25
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