It isn't hard to imagine Daniel Taylor as John Lennon in Through a Glass Onion
It’s eerie: the voice on the other end of the phone line is a dead ringer for that of John Lennon. That’s no accident.
Daniel Taylor has masterfully taken on the vocal inflections of the late Beatle in the musical/play Lennon: Through a Glass Onion, which comes to Club Soda on Tuesday, Oct. 25.
Taylor — a Liverpudlian, like Lennon — has the late Beatle’s look and mannerisms down pat, too. So much so that the hair stands up on the neck of many a patron who catches the show. The resemblance, physically and vocally, is that uncanny.
Lennon: Through a Glass Onion has bowled over audiences in the U.S. and the U.K. The Club Soda date marks the show’s Canadian debut, before it moves on to cities including Toronto and Vancouver. And that’s only fitting.
Lennon, who was murdered in New York 36 years ago, had a special connection with this city. In 1969, he and bride Yoko Ono conducted a Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Joined at their bedside by Timothy Leary, Dick Gregory, Tommy Smothers and Petula Clark, among others, Lennon and Ono recorded Give Peace a Chance, their protest against the Vietnam War.
Through a Glass Onion was co-created by John Waters and Stewart D’Arrietta, who accompanies Taylor on keyboards and provides background vocals. Inspired by the Lennon tune Glass Onion, the presentation is based on a rather audacious and unique concept. It entails Lennon’s life flashing before him from the moment when Mark David Chapman began firing the bullets to the nanoseconds later when they struck Lennon as he and Ono were returning to their New York apartment.
By:Bill Brownstein
Source: Montreal Gazette
