{"id":2456020,"date":"2020-03-19T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969793"},"modified":"2020-03-19T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:43:21","slug":"bob-dylan-musical-cast-breaks-down-the-power-of-tight-connection-to-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/bob-dylan-musical-cast-breaks-down-the-power-of-tight-connection-to-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan Musical Cast Breaks Down the Power of \u2018Tight Connection to My Heart\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Conor McPherson<\/a> was writing his Bob Dylan<\/a> jukebox musical, Girl From the North<\/em> Country, he didn\u2019t want to include your usual Dylan fare \u2014 he wanted to plumb the deep cuts.<\/p>\n

The Irish playwright owned about five Dylan albums when he was approached with the idea of writing a musical featuring the legend\u2019s music. As he told Rolling Stone <\/em>in 2017,<\/a> he was sent Dylan\u2019s complete catalog so he could upload it on his iPod, shuffle the tracks, and hear all the classics and the lesser-known treasures.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never wanted a standard musical,\u201d McPherson said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a Bob musical. Once you say that, all bets are off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The play \u2014 which premiered in London in 2017 and ran on Broadway<\/a> until COVID-19 closures \u2014 takes place in Dylan\u2019s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, during the Great Depression. In it, a dysfunctional family called the Laines lives and tends to a boardinghouse, which hosts a boxer (Joe Scott) and a sleazy preacher (Rev. Marlowe), among other guests. The characters express their thoughts during the show through Dylan\u2019s poetic lyrics, as with the song \u201cTight Connection to My Heart,\u201d off of Dylan\u2019s Empire Burlesque<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201d \u2018Tight Connection\u2019 for me was the thing that really sort of connected me not only to this piece, but reconnected me to my love of Dylan,\u201d says Marc Kudisch, who plays Mr. Burke, a boardinghouse resident who lost all his money in the stock market crash.<\/p>\n

\u201d \u2018Tight Connection to My Heart\u2019 was such a departure from the way it was on the record in the Eighties,\u201d adds Mare Winningham, who plays Elizabeth Laine alongside Jay O. Sanders as Nick Laine.<\/p>\n

As Sanders explains, \u201cIt\u2019s something Dylan has in his music where you think of him as a folk artist and poet, and he kicks into this place that\u2019s just electric.\u201d<\/p>\n

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