Characters battle to become the next choir master at St. Thomas Church in a play jam-packed with wordplay and jokesThere are times when a theater or movie critic will refer to a work as"talky." That term might confuse some, since most plays seem talky with, you know, all those people talking all the time. It's not until you see a play such as Bach at Leipzig that you know what talky really means.
A questionable lineup of candidates is then introduced, kind of like in the old flick"The Magnificent Seven" if you replaced the word Magnificent with Mediocre. New-idea guy Fasch and stuck-in-the-mud Schott show up first, since they were former students of the expired fellow and feel they have the inside track.
The audience is then given a post-intermission treat as the good ol' play-within-a-device idea is employed. When gullible Kaufmann overhears a plotting session between two other characters she perceives it as rehearsal for an entertainment, a ripe subject for her analysis and editing. This stylized approach is arresting at first but eventually becomes tiresome, as it feels each performer is always trying to one-up the other. This cacophony of voices blurs the meaning of the dialog and steals one of the most powerful tools of any actor: the ability to throw a line away and thus own it forever.
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