Symbolism and Struggle in a Contest of Dreams
Charles IsherwoodJune 5, 2012: In the new musical “Hands on a Hardbody,” dreams die a sudden death, with the buckling of knees, a hand gone numb or a descent into hallucination. This Broadway-bound show, making its premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse here, sings sincerely and with a rough-edged humor of the dusty margins of American life, where people live paycheck to paycheck if they are lucky enough to have a job, and chase a chancy illusion of sudden salvation if they are not.
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