The cast of David Adjmi’s “Stereophonic,” inspired in part by the making of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours,” tinker at a studio in Brooklyn, despite limited musical training, Alex Barasch writes.
Adjmi set the story in 1976 and enlisted Will Butler, lately of Arcade Fire, to write the music. It wasn’t enough for it to be period-appropriate; it had to be narratively apt, too—composed with an ear for the guitar riff that could expose a guy’s ego or the high note that pushes a soloist to her breaking point. Butler and Adjmi spent nearly a decade tinkering before “Stereophonic” premièred, in 2023. This spring, it transferred to Broadway, where it earned thirteen Tony nominations.
Before the show opened at Playwrights Horizons, they had just seven weeks of rehearsal to get to grips with their instruments. The first half of each day was devoted to band practice. The engineers would arrive in the afternoon to find the cast mid-jam session, disco lights on, the composer leaping up and down in excitement. The energy in the studio was similarly jovial, even when a debate broke out over the distinction between “ohh” and “ooh.
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