Rolling Thunder falls flat
April this year marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Celebrating this milestone – or perhaps cashing in on it – is Rolling Thunder, an off-Broadway musical imported from Australia now playing at the New World Stages. Marketed as “part rock concert, part documentary,” Rolling Thunder is all cliché – and not in a good way. The two-hour jukebox musical uses a razor-thin plot and woefully undeveloped characters to connect various popular songs of the era, from “Born to Be Wild” to “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” and "Bridge over Troubled Water," supported on stage by a five-piece band.
