Tag: FLORA

John Carney’s “Flora and Son” is a different kind of musical

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A teen boy looks at his laptop as a woman wearing earbuds plays a guitar in "Flora and Son."

John Carney doesn’t make stories with music so much as stories about music. Characters are changed by melody; relationships forged by rhyme. There’s nothing glittery about typical Carney characters. They wouldn’t belong in conventional musicals. […]