Jesse and I saw “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” this weekend. Aside from the dreaminess of the main actor, Benjamin Walker (above, in white shirt), the show was fun and thought provoking. Perfect? Naw, but for $10 it was definitely worth it. Check out this excerpt from the glowing NYT review:
“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” — which runs through May 24 as part of the Public LAB season and, at $10 a ticket, is one of the best bargains in town — plies that sensibility to evoke the oohs and ouches of a new country’s growing pains. (The first lyric of its first song: “Why wouldn’t you ever go out with me in high school?”) And its scrappy, two-fisted title character (played by the lean, mean Benjamin Walker) is presented as the perfect national avatar of the period: an angry, enthusiastic and very hungry overgrown boy with a need for instant gratification and a whopping sense of entitlement.
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