Goodbar
Opening Night: January 4, 2012
Closing: January 15, 2012
Theater: Public Theater
Created in collaboration with NYC glam-punk band, Bambï, Goodbar blurs the boundaries between music and theater while tackling one of the most controversial cult artifacts of the ’70s: Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Riffing wildly on the novel by Judith Rossner, Bambï & Waterwell crank the amps up to ten and launch a full frontal assault on modern myths of sex, independence and persona.
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January 6, 2012
The easily downloadable single dominates pop music today, which makes “Goodbar,” a music-theater piece being presented at the Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar festival, a throwback in more ways than one. The show, created by the band Bambï and the downtown theater troupe Waterwell, is essentially a staged concept album. (Remember them? Remember albums?) It’s based loosely on “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” the 1975 novel by Judith Rossner about the dark side of that other singles scene — in the bars, that is, where the heroine, a lonely schoolteacher named Theresa, meets a punishing fate.
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