The Twyla Tharp / Bob Dylan musical, The Times They Are A-Changin’, is having the final performance of its current run at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego today. It is due to arrive on Broadway in the fall, and, if you believe the NY Post from about a month ago, may be having a short summer run in Chicago before that.

The San Diego Union Tribune today has an extensive article on developments so far in the staging of this show, with expansive commentary by Tharp herself.

Director-choreographer Twyla Tharp’s surreal spectacle set to Bob Dylan songs is now somewhere between Draft 2 and the final Draft 3 that will open on Broadway this fall. Those terms come from Tharp herself, who calls a private workshop performance of the fledgling show last year in New York “Draft 1″ and the Globe show of two months ago “Draft 2.”

In residence here since early December, the workaholic Tharp has attended most of the 65 performances since previews began. “I sit right in the audience, not separate in the (glass) booth. I want to sense their response,” she said.

Since opening, Tharp has regularly rehearsed the company, inserting changes, creating new transitions, re-choreographing whole numbers, or meeting with designers to create new costumes or lighting effects.

If you’re interested you’ll definitely want to read it all.

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