The New York Times takes note of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.
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The musical, which has been at least 11 years in the making, has been described as a Southern gothic work based on a true story that Mr. Mellencamp wanted to fashion for the stage in the spirit of Tennessee Williams, a long-time influence on the singer. Events in the musical take place, for instance, in the Mississippi town of Lake Belle Reve; Belle Reve is the name of the one-time Mississippi homestead of Blanche DuBois and her sister Stella in Williams’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
The musical’s plot concerns a 40-year-old tragedy that has haunted the character Joe McCandless: the deaths of his two brothers, who hated each other, and a young girl. Those two brothers are now ghosts in a family cabin where Joe brings his own two troubled sons who seem on the verge of repeating family history.
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