Daily News | Review: Backing Track offers humor and poignant reflections on love, grief and the challenges of community
The humor is bracketed by karaoke numbers and, eventually, poignant reflections on love, grief and the challenges of community.Backing TrackIn program notes, Thomas, a Barrymore Award-winning playwright and television writer, says the show can be viewed as “a karaoke-infused cabaret, a memory play, a call to a late-night radio show requesting that song that will change everything.” Or, he writes, it may simply be “a mixtape brought to life on stage.
The play is set “in 2018 or thereabouts,” primarily in the home that Avery shares with his widowed mother, Mel . Mel is grieving, hard, the loss of her wife, Miriam. She refuses to remove plastic sheeting from her windows and keeps rerunning James Cameron’s 1997 filmMel is eager to hand off the house, and its responsibilities, to Avery, who resists. He diverts himself singing karaoke on cruise ships, driving Miriam’s old car for Lyft, and perusing the dating app Grindr.
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