Review: Raul Esparza is brilliant in ‘Galileo’; the rest of the show can’t keep up

Raúl Esparza stars as the game-changing scientist Galileo Galilei and Madalynn Mathews is his brilliant daughter Virginia in “Galileo: A Rock Musical,” getting its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.Four-time Tony nominee Raúl Esparza mesmerizes as the maverick astronomer, a deeply religious man who hardens into atheism in “Galileo: A Rock Musical,” an erratic cautionary tale written by Emmy winner Danny Strong and directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer .

As it is, the plot points lack urgency because we all already know the ending. Galileo’s fate is written in the stars when he is summoned to Rome to defend his heretical theory, that the Earth revolves around the sun, before the Inquisition, at a time when exploring the heavens with a telescope is an act of blasphemy.

Madalynn Mathews also rivets as Galileo’s brilliant daughter Virginia who is too poor for a suitable dowry and too smart to abjure her curiosity for the nunnery.

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