Review: David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ Is a Weird Dictatorship Song and Dance

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Review: David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ Is a Weird Dictatorship Song and Dance
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There is nothing feelgood about the rule of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos. Yet “Here Lies Love” tries, and fails, to find it. Plus, the energy—and wowing basketball skills—of “Flex.”

If you buy tickets to stand amid the action on the ground floor, you are told to be aware of the revolving stage, and to follow the instruction of stagehands who hold colored batons. If you are seated upstairs, you are told when to get up and dance, and what to say.

But it’s what all the music , and the get-up-and-dance instruction is in service of that is the offensively under-realized puzzle ofThe 90-minute musical is about the rise and implosion of the Marcos regime in the Philippines, and given the scale and brutality of their crimes against an entire country, the musical sings and dances up a storm, while not making much of a case there is anything to sing and dance about.

And, OK, if you want to suck all that we know out of our heads and go full camp—and ignore all their despicable actions—what is? Any sign of shoes, and any song about them!

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