Bridge and Tunnel
2002
14:15
Dancers – 8
Music – Paul Simon 1) Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard 2) Something So Right 3) 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover 4) Kodachrome
Lighting- John Imburgia
Costumes – Cindy Darling, after Sarah Brazo
“Jon Lehrer’s delightful Bridge and Tunnel, set Paul Simon songs, is a playful hymn to the sidewalks of the outer boroughs…it’s a first rate sample of American vernacular dance, a genre whose distinguished heritage includes Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free, Agnes DeMille’s Rodeo, and Gene Kelley’s ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ solo.”
- Kelly Kleiman, Chicago Reader
“The virtues of Bridge and Tunnel – set in working-class New York to music by Paul Simon – are even more apparent now that it can be compared to Twyla Tharp’s Movin’ Out, set in working-class New York to music by Billy Joel. Tharp’s show is spectacular – and you’ve got to love a woman who can fill a Broadway house for a dance concert with people who would never got to a dance concert. But Lehrer’s piece has two advantages: its uncondescending use of colloquialism and its taste in music. Bridge and Tunnel betters Movin’ Out the same way Paul Simon outstrips Billy Joel.”
- Kelly Kleiman, Chicago Reader
