Elvis Costello’s musical adaptation is ‘fitfully engaging’ | Theatre | Entertainment

Elvis Costello’s musical adaptation is ‘fitfully engaging’ | Theatre | Entertainment

Based on Elia Kazan’s 1957 movie, this musical adaptation with songs by Elvis Costello is ostensibly about the power of the media to influence and manipulate the electorate. It charts the rise of a Arkansas drifter ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes (Ramin Karimloo) who is picked up by ambitious local radio producer Marcia (Anoushka Lewis) to appear on … Read more