Theater Review: Suzanne Vega appears as the bandleader/narrator in this new musical with songs by Duncan Sheik, based on Paul Mazursky's 1969 screen comedy about swingers and the sexual revolution, 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'
Unfortunately, the show has arrived about a half-century too late.
and his wife Carol experiencing a consciousness-raising, clothes-dropping weekend at "The Institute at Big Sur" . The experience prompts Bob to have a casual affair with a much younger woman during a business trip, to which the newly liberated Carol responds with blithe acceptance. But when she reciprocates by sleeping with a hunky tennis instructor, Bob finds himself struggling to overcome his jealousy, though he ultimately comes to terms with the new paradigm.
Although the film has become dated in many respects, it nonetheless still proves highly entertaining thanks to the amusing dialogue and the outstanding performances by its leads Robert Culp, Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon . But the material doesn't work at all in this adaptation. The clever banter, delivered so naturally onscreen, falls flat onstage. The plot's contrivances are more glaring, and the pacing of the nearly two-hour intermissionless proceedings feels glacial.
Vega, credited in the program as "Band Leader," a role Sheik initially had intended to play himself, adds some star power by narrating the story, providing the voices for a few unseen characters and singing lead on most of the songs. But she seems awkward onstage, sometimes reading from the script, and her extraneous presence proves distracting; you keep hoping she'll break out into "Luka" or "Tom's Diner.
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