Howard Miller takes a look at We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time:
A spoonful of sugar may very well help the medicine go down. But in We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time, David Cale's solo musical memoir opening tonight at the Public Theater, a tale that is entangled in the brambles of a troubled childhood is soaked in so much treacly romanticism that it loses its power to disturb an audience, even if it continues to haunt its teller. . . . |
