Bob’s chorus line
Even Conor McPherson, writer and director of the award-winning musical Girl from the North Country, acknowledges it’s a hard one for people to get their heads around. “I can truthfully say,” he says from his home in Dublin, “if someone had said, ‘Hey, do you want to see a Bob Dylan musical?’ my response would have been: ‘No’.
“So I recognise it’s a tough sell, because Bob doesn’t fit in the world of musicals. And the world of musicals doesn’t want Bob Dylan, either.”
It probably didn’t, until arrived, using Dylan songs in its narrative. McPherson says the positive energy from the London audience at the show’s preview meant he knew intuitively that was going to be all right. “But
