Daily News | Award-winning playwright R. Eric Thomas talks his new Philly-inspired romantic comedy, ‘Backing Track’
which premieres at the Arden on March 3, is filled with music, but it’s not a musical. The lead characters, who are family and neighbors, take karaoke very seriously; they connect through singing and the songs they love. Playwright R. Eric Thomas says nostalgia motivated him as he wrote this “karaoke play.”
He noted: “I really wanted to spend a lot of time in a sphere with an audience just remembering how vivid memory can be, particularly when there’s a soundtrack to it.”, its themes and what romantic comedies can show us. This interview was edited for length and clarity.I lived in Philadelphia for 15 years. I lived in South Philly for most of that time, or all that time, actually. And I saw neighborhoods change.
I think to watch that play now… it is not a fantasy. This is a world that’s possible. But I think the idea of a play is that it takes work. And my hope is that when we watch it now, we see that the work that we’re doing to make our neighborhoods and make ourselves better isn’t in vain.
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