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Plan for Healthy Life Style 4380 Fayetteville Rd. • Lumberton, NC 28358 Tele: 919-718-0414 • Fax: 919-718-0280 • Hours of Operation: 8am-5pm Monday-Friday Page 2 — Saturday, January 4, 2020 — The Robesonian A penny for your songs: ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ premieres on NBC By Sachi Kameishi like “Glee” and “Crazy Ex-Girl- narrates the first trailer for the One second, Zoey’s having a ters who transition from dialogue chance to hear others’ innermost TV Media friend” and a stream of live-ac- show, “... what she got, was so regular conversation with her to song as though it were noth- thoughts through music, a lan- tion Disney remakes have much more.” best friend, Max, played by Skylar ing? Taking it at face value, peo- guage as universal as they come f you’d told me a few years ago brought the genre back into the In an event not unlike your Astin (“Pitch Perfect,” 2012). ple singing and dancing out of — a gift curious in that it sends Ithat musicals would be this cul- limelight, and its rebirth spans standard superhero origin story, Next thing she knows, he’s sing- nowhere is very off-putting and her on a journey that doesn’t nec- turally relevant in 2020, I would film, television, theater and pod- an MRI scan gone wrong leaves ing and dancing to the Jonas absurd, right? Well, “Zoey’s Ex- essarily highlight her own voice have been skeptical. For a while, casting. NBC is set to offer its Zoey with the ability to access Brothers’ groovy hit “Sucker,” traordinary Playlist” kind of but her ability to listen to others. tastes had changed — movies own addition to the trend with its people’s innermost thoughts and making his secret feelings for her agrees, but it seems to have It’s a journey that’s going to be like “My Fair Lady” (1964) and brand-new musical dramedy “Zo- feelings. It’s like she becomes a abundantly clear. In another found its own solution to the hard to resist diving into. Tune in “West Side Story” (1961) won ey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” pre- mind reader overnight, her desire scene from the musical dramedy, problem. Instead of expecting the to to a show that both reinvents Oscars in the ‘60s, but it’s been miering Tuesday, Jan. 7. to fully understand what people Zoey’s at a café with her neighbor viewer to accept the musical and completely stands by the many years since a musical has Starring Jane Levy (“Suburga- want from her seemingly fulfilled. Mo (Alex Newell, “Glee”), trying numbers without question, why heart of the musical genre, when been taken quite that seriously. tory”) as the titular character, the And it doesn’t end there — re- to come to terms with her new not have the lead character find “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” Today, though, musicals are pop- show centers on the life of Zoey member, we’re playing with musi- ability, when she witnesses an the singing out of place, too? premieres Tuesday, Jan. 7, on NBC. ular enough to get both Academy Clarke, a computer programmer cal rules here, there’s a campy elaborate, fully choreographed It’s brilliant, and it gives the Award nominations and prime- whose extremely brainy, rigid na- twist to all of this. “People are performance of DJ Khaled’s “All I new series an edge that other time network slots. ture often gets in the way of her singing to me,” Zoey explains. Do is Win,” but Mo only sees “a shows of the musical genre don’t The musical has come a long ability to make an impression on “Almost as if they were singing bunch of mostly white people have. It makes it more accessible Adelio’sItalian and American Gourmet Cuisine way. Critically acclaimed movies the people around her. “All Zoey what they were thinking out drinking overpriced coffee.” to audiences, gives them a great- like “La, La, Land” (2017), shows wanted was a connection ...,” loud.” It’s a fun premise for a show, er ability to attach to Zoey’s char- 111 W 3rd St, Lumberton one that indulges the typical mu- acter, and makes the comedy land (910) 671-4747 sical’s over-the-top, performative beautifully (what’s funnier than a nature as much as it subverts de facto one-woman audience for what the genre tends to be. And huge musical numbers?). But, the rest of the cast is nothing to most importantly, it gives the sneeze at, either — John Clar- singing even more of a punch and ence Stewart (“Luke Cage”), Lau- allows the characters to speak ren Graham (“Gilmore Girls”), their most vulnerable truths. It’s Mary Steenburgen (“The Last hearing what people are feeling, which is what musicals are all Man on Earth”) and Peter Galla- Hours: gher (“The O.C.”). about. Monday • 11 AM - 10 PM Creator and showrunner Aus- “[The show] is about how we Tuesday • 11 AM - 10 PM tin Winsberg, whose diverse cred- express ourselves,” said Graham, Wednesday • 11 AM - 10 PM who plays Zoey’s no-nonsense Thursday • 11 AM - 10 PM its working on melodramas such Friday • 11 AM - 10 PM as “Gossip Girl” and the “The boss, Joan. For a character who Saturday • 5 PM - 10 PM Sound of Music Live!” sum up the struggled to communicate her Sunday • Closed unique tone of his new creation whole life, Zoey is handed the perfectly, has come up with a con- cept that I’ve never seen before: a musical that, through its lead, breaks its own fourth wall. It’s pretty remarkable when you think about it, given that one of the biggest gripes surrounding the genre is the amount of suspen- sion of disbelief required from the audience. How do you make people buy Skylar Astin and John Clarence Stewart in “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” into the emotional life of charac- Welcome to your local Farm Bureau Agency! 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