Makes Some Sweet Music | |
Title: | Makes Some Sweet Music |
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Description: | Makes Some Sweet Music Amy Herzog's play has opened to strong reviews and an immediate extension and no wonder: she's a distinctive talent. I just seem to be a step behind others in where I think her work has developed. 4000 Miles was a less ambitious play that didn't quite add up, but which was given an excellent production at Lincoln Center. Now Playwrights Horizon has given her more ambitious new play a flawed but sympathetic staging that reflects the weaknesses in the work. Our hero is Jamie (Jeremy Strong) who is meeting with a childhood acquaintance named Frank (Keith Nobbs) "friend" seems too strong a word for two men who haven't seen each other since they were seven years old. But it's not too strong a word for Frank who has reached out to Jamie and clearly has some momentous news. Frank is taking legal action against his father for molestation and thinks perhaps that Jamie was molested by Frank's father as well. What? No. Jamie is polite but firm: he doesn't have any s |