American Psycho the Musical at Chapel Off Chapel

Musical theater
American Psycho – Musical ★★★
Chapel closed chapel, until September 21st

A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho It is not as strange as it seems. The author did not think that the book could go into a film, but the 2000 films played by Christian Bale became a cult classic.

And the vicious, empty side of the consumer culture went. If there is one thing, the second term of Trump provided a strange cultural moment to Ellis’s postmodern satir, another film adaptation in the works and the revival of the musical planned for West End in 2026.

Mavens, Melbourne’s musical theater, will have the chance to satisfy the curiosity of Patrick Bateman (Conor Beaumont), a young New York investment banker in the late 1980s.

Bateman, who is obsessed with his physical appearance, is jealous of the circle of his friends with shallow, narcissistic, obsessed status obsessed with his friends, but he secretly despises, but the social inequality that provides impulses for the Wall Street to turn this wolf serial killer. His first victim is homeless.

Ironically, of course, no one believes that Bateman is a murderer despite a full confession, and escapes from both the punishment and the recognition he wants for his crimes.

While Bateman’s killer Orgy emerged, the show camp raised. Protects the iconic one Hip square Bateman’s business opponent (Sam Ward) cuts and the 80s Pop Bangers’un new order, tears for fears, and Phil Collins and Phil Collins’in axes of the ax.

Unfortunately, Duncan Sheik’s original songs are sometimes overwhelming in this production. Lyric intelligence has a brutal dark brightness, but the musical direction sometimes struggles to find vibe.