“We’re on a road to nowhere,” David Byrne sings in the final encore of his Broadway concert, “American Utopia,” at the Hudson Theatre. Can we get an encore of that encore, please?
While the thrumming, melodic Talking Heads song in question dates back more than three decades, the sentiment expressed in its title and chorus has never felt more pertinent. With the country sliding ever more inexorably into political chaos and social dysfunction, we do seem to be bumping along toward some unknown and possibly unhappy destination.
