This is a compliment as well as a criticism: The performers and the audience could really use more space to move around. The captives manage to get into the showmanship of their solos so much that it's a wonder they don't fall off the front of the stage. All the singing performances are solid, with Davis leading the pack. The accompanying live band works to the advantage of Hostage Song's driving soundtrack, whose highlights include "Jenny Baby, Don't You Cry" and "Never Say Die." Frontman Clayton Hamburg's reedy voice blends well with the richer tones of Davis and Farah.
Jim is concerned about the wife and son he left at home, and Jennifer's worried about her father and her waylaid career plans. Along the way, they sing about their plights. They are blindfolded, so they pass the time guessing what objects might be in the room and engaging in flirty role playing. military contractor Jim (Mikhael Farah) and journalist Jennifer (Katie Davis) being led to the stage by their foreign abductors. A pair of kidnapping victims, as well as their families, use driving rock songs and other sonic remedies to maintain their sanity in a strange and scary world.
So it makes sense, at least somewhat, when the characters in the Music Theatre of Madison production of Hostage Song (through Feb. Mikhael Farah and Clayton Hamburg in Music Theatre of Madison's Hostage Songīeing held captive in a foreign land could dramatically change the one's definition of normalcy and make escape the most immediate goal.
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