Tharp Brings Dylan's Music To Broadway

Twyla Tharp took on the music of Billy Joel and created "Movin' Out," which ran for more than three years on Broadway.

Now the director-choreographer has turned to another pop superstar, Bob Dylan, for her next project — "The Times They Are A-Changin'."

The musical, a coming-of-age story set in a circus, opens Oct. 26 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Preview performances begin Sept. 25.

"The Times They Are A-Changin' " concerns a young man, played by Michael Arden; his tyrannical father, portrayed by Thom Sesma, and a beautiful circus performer, played by Caren Lyn Manuel.

The musical received mostly encouraging reviews when it premiered last February at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. The San Diego Union-Tribune called it an "exciting, flawed, phantasmagoric fable," while the San Francisco Chronicle said it "looks like a success," praising the production's "dynamic performances and imaginatively acrobatic choreography."

Among the Dylan hits in the show — besides the title song — are "Blowin' in the Wind," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Lay Lady Lay," "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right."