Director Alex Gibney’s new two-part documentary “In Restless Dreams” completely elides Paul Simon’s controversial “Capeman” musical. But should it really be forgotten?
Director Alex Gibney’s new two-part documentary “In Restless Dreams” completely elides Paul Simon’s controversial “Capeman” musical. But should it really be forgotten?fans are in the middle of their own eras tour over on MGM+. The Amazon-owned streamer is hosting Alex Gibney’s two-part docuseries,’ first half, which premiered March 17, covered Simon’s Tom & Jerry era up through the rise and fall of.
And according to Gibney, that narrative wasn’t able to accommodate a detour that could be fodder for its own documentary:era. In 1998, Simon took his talents to Broadway for a short-lived, highly divisive musical based on the story of Salvador Agron, the Nuyorican gang member who killed two teenagers on a Hell’s Kitchen playground.
Anthony, who played the older and younger Agron respectively. “I was always sort of vaguely aware of Latin music, because at that time my father was a bandleader, and he’d play at Roseland Ballroom, and the other band that played there was a Latin band. So these are the sounds that are just at the edge of my memory.”ahead of its release had less to do with the source of its songs than with the story Simon had chosen to re-tell.
Similarly, Negrón-Muntaner suggests that the significance of seeing Latino singers like Blades and Anthony belting on a Broadway stage wouldn’t necessarily have registered with critics. “They were mostly known to Spanish-speaking audiences, so their star power was at a different level,” she notes, while also adding that their presence alone wasn’t enough to overcome the musical’s larger flaws. “Those of us that were familiar with those performers didn’t feel that did that much.
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