HANK AND THE VIRGIN
posted by James Reel
Two items of mine darken the pages of the latest Tucson Weekly. First, Arizona Theatre Company does a fine job with a script that should have been better:
What's cookin' at Arizona Theatre Company is a good lookin' revue called Hank Williams: Lost Highway. Well designed, acted and sung, the show could be improved by only one thing: jettisoning the first act and rebuilding the play around the second-act crisis, thereby taking time to develop the elements unique to this country singer's story, and using the music to help tell that story rather than merely to punctuate a breathless narration of the man's whole damn life.You’ll find the whole review here. There’s also a preview of this weekend’s Christmas concerts by the Tucson Chamber Artists, a small, professional-quality choir:
The Tucson Chamber Artists are setting themselves apart by offering two performances this weekend of music that's not particularly easy to sing, in a program whose texts emphasize the rose, the queen of flowers, a symbol of Mary in the Christian tradition. Threading through this assortment of everything from unaccompanied Renaissance pieces to tone-cluster modern works will be several familiar carols.Read the rest here.
