Wilder

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One would like to think of oneself as eager to keep up with the times, but the recent trend in musicals so gloomy and serious about their intentions that they discourage the audience from applauding at the end of numbers has become a challenge to this humble scribe. That is to say, whatever pleasures and/or insights into the human condition that the frenzied and glum chamber musical Wilder might boast elude me.

The eponymous title character is a naive Colorado lad reaching puberty in the Great Depression just when his flim-flamming father is sent to prison and his mother abandons
the boy to take a job as a maid -- or so she says. Wilder Jessup (Jeremiah Miller), whose tale is told as an 80[...]