We've always been more on the McCartney side, but we'd like to see this:
"Lennon," which opens Sunday at the Broadhurst, tracks Lennon's life through his songs, interspersed with video and his own words. It's an undertaking complex enough to have already required substantial reworking and two postponements of the opening date.
"In San Francisco, the show was not so good," Ono allows. "But now it's very good."
Ono's official role here is advisory. "I'm a B-side," she says. "And I'm very happy with that. It's John's story."
Of course, some elements in "Lennon" could rekindle some of the old controversy about Ono's shepherding of the Lennon story. The show makes no mention of May Pang, his companion during his "Lost Weekend" separation from Yoko in 1974-75, and it portrays the last five years of his life – after their reconciliation – as calm and peaceful, even though some writers have suggested he underwent long stretches of doubt and darkness during that period.
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