If I was a New Yorker, this show might raise questions. But I'm not. So I can just enjoy the music and the way that Baz Lurhman celebrates beauty and life where others see decay. Everyone thought New York was dead in the 70s, when it was just beginning. I've always rolled my eyes when people talk about youth being our future, but this is a story about that possibility. Not all young, but perhaps some, people didn't see ruin and the end in the Bronx, but all kind of possibility, beauty, power, a canvas, and scope for living life. What else would you do if you are young and never knew anything else? Making art might just be instinctive.
Review of The Get Down
