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Apr 13th, 2008 - 4:40 AM
Lost Highway - Thru April 20, 2008 at Virginia Stage Company's Wells Theatre





Lost Highway - Thru April 20, 2008 at Virginia Stage Company's Wells Theatre

Musically, 'Hank' sets the woods on fire

Musically, 'Hank' sets the woods on fire


Jarrod Emick is winning as the iconic country singer in 'Hank Williams: Lost Highway,' but given the dramatic events of Williams' life, it's curious that the script skims over them. (Courtesy photo)

By Mal Vincent
The Virginian-Pilot
© April 13, 2008

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill,

He sounds too blue to fly,

The midnight train is whining low,

I'm so lonesome I could cry.

These lines from Hank Williams form perhaps the most dramatic pop song about human loneliness in the American lexicon. The hopeless quality of lost love and lost ambition permeate. To hear it should send chills up your spine. It is a drama all to itself.

It is curious, then, that there is so little drama in "Hank Williams: Lost Highway," the show that has settled in to the Virginia Stage Company's Wells Theatre through April 20. Walking in the footsteps of an earlier box-office bonanza for the company about Patsy Cline, this show is sure to be a crowd pleaser that will encourage continued musical "biographies" such as "Ella," already scheduled for next season.

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