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Isolation, Set to Harmony: Three Houses and The Lonely Few
Blue notes from lockdown and from musicians on the road.
Keeping to an overarching metaphor of the Three Little Pigs, Malloy imagines three strangers gathering in a bar, which the design team dots — omnipresent and double Tony nominated — has styled with the cozy retro familiarity of Cheers for a kind of karaoke night. All three characters experienced breakups right before March 2020, and each of their new obsessions — whether it’s gaming; trying to organize a Latvian grandmother’s library, as in Seibert’s case; or repeatedly ordering New Age charms on Amazon, as in Mollison’s — takes root in those untreated interpersonal wounds. In Zoe Sarnak’s musical, which has a book by Rachel Bonds, Lila (Lauren Patten, who you may remember belting “You Oughta Know” in Jagged Little Pill) is a young lesbian woman fronting a rock band in a small Kentucky town.
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