Vivid songs of ‘Lennon’ carry Broadway-bound musical most of the way
Imagine there’s a musical biography of John Lennon with very little of the Beatles in it. You may say I’m a dreamer, but not only is that pretty much the case with “Lennon” — the Broadway-bound world premiere that opened Tuesday at the Orpheum Theatre in the Best of Broadway series — but it scarcely seems to matter for a good part of the show.
But then it does. “Lennon” is brightly creative, engagingly earnest, irreverent, sweet, informative and funny. It contains terrific songs and dynamic voices to match. But it never fulfills the rich promise that hovers so tantalizingly just beyond its reach.
That makes it still several cuts above most of the animated songbook musicals that have flooded the field of late, thanks to the still-astonishing richness of Lennon’s output and the inventive showmanship of author-director Don Scardino. With numbers like “Imagine,” “Instant Karma,” “Working Class Hero,” “Give Peace a Chance,” “The Ballad of John and Yoko” and the ferociously honest “God,” “Lennon” was already ahead of the game before Scardino even got started.
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