Bloodsong of Love: The Rock 'n' Roll Spaghetti Western

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Joe Iconis's new chamber musical, Bloodsong of Love: The Rock 'n' Roll Spaghetti Western, now playing at Ars Nova, has its charms, but the two-act piece simply runs overlong for so slim a conceit.

In the show, "The Musician," a traveling guitarist, falls for a seductive young fishmonger and marries her, only to have her abducted by the cruel Lo Crocodilo, a kazoo virtuoso. In those latter two words, you have the meat of this musical's humor. Feisty, sneering Jeremy Morse wrests every drop of comic potential -- as well as gobs of stage blood -- from his role as the diminutive tooting terror.

Outgunning Morse -- at least in the audience favorite department -- is Lance Rubin as the Musician[...]