Daily Podcasts Video Research

A hauntingly bizarre musical upends Stephen Sondheim's signature maxim — here, everyone is alone

JL;DR SUMMARY Dave Malloy's bold, innovative musical "Three Houses" presented at Signature Theatre explores lockdown-era isolation through a unique interpretation of The Three Little Pigs tale, featuring characters Susan, Sadie, and Beckett reminiscing on their pandemic experiences in Latvia, New Mexico, and Brooklyn. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »
This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 24248
Cairo Source ID 35
Retrieved 2024-05-29 06:01:07 UTC
Curated 2024-05-29 07:01:01 UTC