Girl from the North Country - 2022 - Broadway Tickets, News, Info & More

Review: Bob Dylan musical 'Girl From the North Country’ is nothing less than a Broadway revelation - Chicago Tribune

Far closer to Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" than "Mamma Mia!," the beguiling and beautiful new show at the Belasco Theatre is hardly a Bob Dylan jukebox musical. Sure, the score for "Girl From the North Country," an ensemble piece that showcases Mare Winningham in an extraordinarily intense and musically compelling performance, is comprised of more than 20 of the legendary protest-warbler's iconic compositions, ranging from "Slow Train" to "Like a Rolling Stone" and "All Along the Watchtower" to "Forever Young."

DEPRESSING DYLAN - Theatre News Online

My takeaway when Girl From the North Country opened at the Public Theater last fall: "An American musical by people who hate musicals and don't know America." Sounds harsh, but I stand by it. Although I've adored Irish writer-director Conor McPherson's work for years, I found his book for this Bob Dylan jukebox musical to be a pile of Depression-era clichés one might amass from a week of binging TCM or skimming Steinbeck. As for the integration of Dylan songs, the tracks don't illuminate character or plot so much as pause the narrative so everyone can enjoy a folksy singalong (cast members even climb into the drum kit). The result - which began as a hit on London's West End with a non-American cast - seemed to me a creaky period play wrapped around a tribute concert, all imbued with a gothic, melancholic vibe because everyone onstage is broke, unloved, addicted, mad or running from the past.