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  • 2023
  • HBO Max
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2023
  • HBO Max
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into el...

Directed By: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

  • 2023
  • HBO Max
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2023
  • HBO Max
  • 1 h 46 m

Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music

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Summary In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into el...

Directed By: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

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90
Jun 27, 2023
Emerging from this extraordinary theatrical happening like a weary but still commanding oracle, Mac has shared a vision of America both personal and probing — tender, bruised and yet defiantly, magnificently hopeful. It’s simultaneously delirious and graced by what seems almost like ancient queer wisdom from somewhere way out there in the cosmos.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
88
Jun 27, 2023
Even though I couldn’t imagine the endurance contest of experiencing the show in person in real time, this documentary — which identifies via graphics the songs and their earlier-than-you-realized dates of composition — leaves you wanting more. As dazzling as this highlights sampler can be, one hopes more of it will be released in bite-sized servings.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 27, 2023
Even if Epstein and Friedman don’t fully document Mac’s vision, they do get across what it was and why it mattered. This movie is a lovingly crafted memento of a remarkable achievement, one that compressed Mac‘s life and much of modern history into 24 hours of wild stunts and show-stopping show-tunes.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 27, 2023
We do see some of the audience participation, which was an integral part of the show, but we don’t hear from attendees. It’s a loss, because the event was, in essence, about the making of community through the ages but also through one day and night.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Content Superba, Fifth Season, HBO Documentary Films, Pomegranate Arts, Telling Pictures
Release Date Jun 27, 2023
Duration 1 h 46 m
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