Roger Friedman on Fox indicates that the Twyla Tharp / Bob Dylan musicalThe Times They Are A-Changin’ is an irredeemable catastrophe that will lose everything when it opens on Oct. 26th.

Factually, however, he doesn’t have much that goes beyond what was reported in a far less grim piece in the New York Post last Wednesday, which I posted about previously.

In essence, according the the Post, the leading lady (a replacement to the original, pushed by the producers, because she was sexier) was murdering the songs, and had to be replaced, and Tharp was continuing to work on choreography and plot — which is what she had planned to do during this preview run anyway.

So what’s true? Who knows? Clearly it’s a work still very much in progress, with 18 days to go until the official opening. But Tharp has apparently worked this way before, with success to show for it. So I guess there’s not much to do but wait until the show really opens.

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