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Howdy partner. Turns out, if you speak all folksy-like, eat red meat, tell stories about Uncle Sam, and maybe do a bit of xenophobia, you can become a demagogue too. So shows recent history, and so shows Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg’s 1957 film A Face in the Crowd, which followed a drifter who becomes a celebrity and eventually a politician, fomenting ever wilder and more extreme views along the way. No need to ponder why playwright Sarah Ruhl and musician Elvis Costello have chosen this moment to adapt it as a musical.
