THE MIDDLE OF NOWHEREA theatrical fantasy Songs by Randy Newman Book by Tracy Friedman SynopsisThe songs of Randy Newman are woven into a contemporary "minstrel" show with the sociological punch that has made him America's foremost musical satirist. Set in 1969, five people find themselves stranded at a bus depot in a backwater Louisiana town. As the rain pours down, their personas pour forth. There's the station's janitor, the jingoistic salesman and the GI to whom he's giving a lift, the redneck with a guitar case full of beer, and the GI returning from Vietnam. In a succession of stylized set pieces, this show-within-a-show becomes a bitter-sweet allegory of American pluralism.
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