![]() ![]() All are dancing, even the keyboard player and percussionists, who wear harnesses. (It was due to return before the pandemic happened.) Byrne and his 11 collaborators wear gray suits with no shoes, and play instruments without cables. In American Utopia, Lee sinks his teeth into a crafty production that toured the globe, then had an extended run at New York’s Hudson Theater. The show is an effort to beat a drum and get them back. ![]() The action begins with Byrne holding a giant plastic brain (after the song “Here”) and explaining how scientists have discovered that infant minds are brimming with connective pathways, which disappear as they get older. It expresses the essence of this moment in America: the fraying and dissolution of community understanding. Another thank-you is extended to Colin Kaepernick, whose image is briefly projected onto the stage when Byrne and company take a knee.Īmerican Utopia doesn’t have a plot - it’s an hour and forty-five minutes of Byrne and Talking Heads songs, plus something that’s not quite stage banter and not quite a monologue. Lee knows he’s not in competition instead he’s gotten the opportunity to build the second bookend, thirty-five years later. How could there not be? In 1984, Demme collaborated with Byrne to make Stop Making Sense, a movie that nine out of 10 reasonable people would call the greatest concert film ever made. There’s a thank-you to Jonathan Demme in Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway show, American Utopia. ![]()
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