Helen Shaw reviews David Adjmi’s cult-hit play “Stereophonic,” which features songs by Will Butler, and the London transplant “Cabaret,” starring Eddie Redmayne.
Now that “Stereophonic” has moved to Broadway’s Golden Theatre, you’ll have to source your own flares. But the show retains its immersive effect, thanks to Adjmi’s fly-on-the-wall hyperrealism, directed with an invisible hand by Daniel Aukin.
Adjmi asks whether it’s worth wrecking a few hearts to make a great song; he answers his own question in the end. The sound designer Ryan Rumery has a nearly impossible task, which he executes with ambition and finesse, but he’s trying for needlepoint accuracy in a Broadway house, which sometimes fights back. The way that music stays alive after being electronically organized into tape is one of the play’s core mysteries, but there are places in the Golden where the sound goes a little sour.
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