Perpetuating the Beatles Legend

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2020)

A romantic celebration of Beatles songs deftly woven into the story of a young dockworker named Jude who leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America. Set in the late 1960s, this musical reinterprets those turbulent times for a whole new generation through old song lyrics, as Jude falls in love with an American girl and they get caught up in the politics of a world gone psychedelic. A fine example of how the rock and roll canon can be kept alive through new ways of hearing it. ---from Musicals on the Silver Screen, American Library Association, 2013