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‘Girl From the North Country’ review: Bob Dylan on Broadway is a dud

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A series of unfortunate events has come to Broadway. No, not the Lemony Snicket novels, but “Girl From the North Country,” a mashup of Bob Dylan songs and abject misery.

The show, which opened Thursday night, is little more than a stack of vaguely depressed persons who take breaks from sad scenes to sing anguished and questionably relevant songs.

A doctor-narrator straight out of “Our Town” says early on, “Pain comes in all kinds: physical, spiritual, indescribable.” He fails to mention theatrical.

Writer-director Conor McPherson’s mopey musical, previously performed in London, Toronto and off-Broadway, is set in Dylan’s hometown, Duluth, Minnesota, in 1934 — some seven years before the musician was born.

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