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MOVIES

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PREMIUM

WATCH THIS: MONDAY

“The Voice”(7 p.m., NBC):

Nick Jonas is expected to

make his debut as a coach as

this hit music competition

series launches Season 18.

Jonas replaces Gwen Ste-

fani, a coach in multiple past

seasons, who will be tied up

with a Las Vegas engagement

during much of the new sea-

son’s production schedule.

Blake Shelton, John Legend

and Kelly Clarkson return to

their familiar coaching posts.

Carson Daly is the host.

“9-1-1: Lone Star”(7 p.m., FOX): An apparent electrocution at the hands of a Los

Angeles transplant and a runaway bull that’s causing chaos at a used car lot are

among the emergency calls handled by Owen (Rob Lowe) and his team in the new

episode “Bum Steer.” An excited Michelle (Liv Tyler) gets her strongest lead yet

on her missing sister, while Owen keeps trying to prove his chemotherapy doesn’t

impair his job performance. Billy Burke guest stars.

“The New Pope”(8 p.m., 10 p.m., HBO; 12:05 a.m., HBO2): Now that Voiello (Sil-

vio Orlando) has bowed out of the running, Cardinal Assente (Maurizio Lombardi)

is next in the line of succession in this new episode. Not much time passes, how-

ever, before it becomes readily apparent that Assente’s policies are not compatible

with the wishes of most cardinals. The Vatican, meanwhile, decides to end radio

broadcasts of the breathing of the comatose Pius XIII (Jude Law), a decision that

inflames the idolaters.

“David Crosby: Remember My Name”(8 p.m., Starz): Cameron Crowe (“Al-

most Famous”) is among the producers on A.J. Eaton’s wildly acclaimed 2019

documentary profile of music legend David Crosby, chronicling his half-century in

the California rock scene. That includes both peaks and valleys, from his early days

with Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to more recent dark times in

jail and estranged from his beloved bandmates. The title is a play on Crosby’s 1971

album called “If I Could Only Remember My Name.”

“The Good Doctor”(9 p.m., ABC): Shaun (Freddie Highmore) makes an emo-

tional confession that doesn’t produce the result he had hoped for in the new

episode “Autopsy.” Elsewhere, he pushes the envelope with some of his hospital

relationships when he becomes obsessed with performing an autopsy on a young

unidentified woman, while Claire, Morgan and Dr. Andrews (Antonia Thomas,

Fiona Gubelmann, Hill Harper) try to help a male college student with a puzzling

split personality disorder. Cameron Gellman and Luke Camilleri guest star.

TALK SHOWS

“The Tonight Show”(10 p.m., Antenna): Late-night talk show hosted by Johnny

Carson, including guest interviews and musical performances.*

“Conan”(10 p.m. 11:30 p.m., TBS): Paul Reubens.*

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”(10:34 p.m., NBC): BTS talk and

perform.*

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”(10:35 p.m., CBS): The comic inter-

views guests and introduces musical performances.*

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!”(10:35 p.m., ABC): Celebrity guests and comedy skits.*

Hey, TV lovers:Looking for detailed show listings? TV Weekly is an ideal companion.
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* Subject to change

Blake Shelton

employs his mom, Joanne

(Barbara E. Robertson),

and we’re firmly in “Kinky

Boots” territory, only mi-

nus the kinky.

In other words, this

movie turned musical does

not sufficiently make its

own case for its freshness

or relevance to the mo-

ment. It needs a lot more

edge.

None of that, really, is

the fault of the book writ-

ers, Steve Rosen and direc-

tor Greenberg, who have

penned a witty and very

likable trajectory for this

show; it is baked into the

material. When “The Se-

cret of My Success” hit

theaters in 1987, the critic

Roger Ebert said that if felt

like the screenplay “had

been in a drawer since the

1950s.” And that comment

was made in the 1980s.

Go forward another

30-odd years and a story

about a perky dude from a

small town going (by bus!)

to New York to save small-

town America from the

ranks of temporary assist-

antsreally feels like a post-

card from a time long gone.

This new musical has

tried to update the story. It

is set in the digital present,

acknowledges the instabil-

ity of today’s corporate

jobs, expunges some of the

amoral antics of the source

movie and works harder at

creating a sympathetic

protagonist. The original

Kansas hometown of the

hero is now in Minnesota,

thus making him and his

mom embodiments of

Minnesota nice (there’s

even a song). The central

romance is fresher, too, and

carefully penned to avoid

sensitive workplace dy-

namics. And the score,

especially the terrific Act 2

opener “I Got This,”

shrewdly recasts the idea

of success in the language

of self-actualization, which

is how today’s self-

anointed corporate pro-

gressives justify making

lots of money.

Although she’s a busi-

ness-suit type, Christy

comes from Staten Island,

allowing the musical to

explore issues of class

(especially in the far strong-

er Act 2) and it means the

designer, Jeffrey D. Kmiec,

can come up with some

terrific theatrical vistas on a

ferry past the Statue of

Liberty. The show is filled

with odes to Manhattan,

which is usually good busi-

ness on Broadway.

But as with so many

romantic comedies that

become musicals, “The

Secret of My Success” has a

sprawling, multi-location

plot. And there is no easy

way to include musical

performances — the show

mostly has to make the

people at the corporate

headquarters sing, and,

frankly, we’ve seen much of

that before. A missed op-

portunity here, perhaps, is

the fun to be had with

someone constantly

switching identities, “Serv-

ant of Two Masters”-style.

But there’s so much else to

tell in the story that little

time remains to have a

whole lot of fun there.

One possible way for-

ward would be with a

quirkier lead performer.

Even though Tighe is solid,

there’s not a lot of emo-

tional vulnerability on view

or enough, really, to differ-

entiate the role from a

standard-issue leading

man. Another might be to

keep the piece in its actual

era, excesses and all, rather

than try and shoehorn it

into a very different mo-

ment.

On opening night,

though, the Aurora audi-

ences weren’t worrying

about anything beyond

what was before their eyes;

the reaction in the house,

which was not filled with

industry types, was one of

evident delight, an em-

brace of what their beloved

theater was doing and a

palpable appreciation for

seeing something first.

Schmuckler and

Mahler’s score really is a

notable achievement. One

song, “Ferry Ride,” beauti-

fully sung by the very

charming Morton, will

really reach your heart, I

think. Not unlike their

peers Benj Pasek and

Justin Paul, Mahler and

Schmuckler not only can

make songs bounce and

climb, but there’s a sweet-

ness to their work, an in-

herent understanding of

the fears that lie in even the

most ebullient expressions

of love. And Rosen is a

great match for them.

But this movie? Not so

much.

Chris Jones is a Tribune

critic.

cjones5@chicago

tribune.com

Success

Continued fromPage 1

Billy Harrigan Tighe plays Brantley Foster in Paramount’s

“The Secret of My Success,” based on the 1987 film.

LIZ LAUREN

When:Through March 29

Where:Paramount

Theatre, 23. E. Galena Blvd.

Aurora

Running time: 2 hours,

25 minutes

Tickets:$36-$74 at

630-896-6666 or http://www.

paramountaurora.com

Double, double, toil and
trouble: In their supremely
nasty 2014 shocker, “Good-
night Mommy,” Austrian
filmmakers Veronika Franz
and Severin Fiala wove an
elegant nightmare about a
house in the woods, a cruel
battle of wits and doppel-
gangers both real and imag-
ined.
Think of their new,
English-language thriller,
“The Lodge,” as a lesser but
not ineffective mirror im-
age to that earlier picture,
which it echoes not only in
its remote forest setting but
also in the way it uses the
language of horror to pry
open a window into trauma
and grief.
It begins on a chilly day,
with a depressive Laura
(Alicia Silverstone) drop-
ping off her teenage son,
Aidan (Jaeden Martell),
and prepubescent daugh-
ter, Mia (Lia McHugh), at
the home of their father,
Richard (Richard Armi-
tage). Richard wants to
finalize their divorce; Laura
breaks down in anguish.
You might initially guess,
from the peculiarities of the
framing and the intensity of
Silverstone’s performance,
that Laura is the movie’s
protagonist, although that
turns out not to be the case.
With near-surgical deli-
cacy, the directors (who
wrote the script with Ser-
gio Casci) shift the story’s
perspective from Laura to
Richard’s fiancee, Grace
(an excellent Riley
Keough). It feels like an act
of transference. The scene
that introduces Grace is
quietly remarkable; previ-
ously glimpsed only as a
blurred silhouette, she slips
into the passenger seat of
Richard’s car, waits a beat
and then turns toward the
backseat to greet Aidan and
Mia — and us — for the first
time.
There’s awkwardness
and bad feeling all around;

despite Richard’s insist-

ence that the kids get to

know their stepmom-to-be,

they want nothing to do

with her, partly out of

loyalty to Laura and partly

out of the suspicion that

Grace, whose name hints at

her long-ago fundamental-

ist upbringing, may not be

entirely trustworthy.

The hostility remains

even after they all head

into the mountains for the

Christmas holidays. And

that’s before Richard is

suddenly called back home,

leaving Grace, Aidan and

Mia alone together in the

enormous family lodge, a

house veiled in heavy shad-

ows and full of doors that

seem to open and close at

random.

Franz and Fiala let ten-

sion mount slowly and

deliberately, and with a

merciful absence of jump

scares. Their suspense-

building strategies are

understated and unortho-

dox (symmetrical frames

and slow, creeping zoom

shots abound), even when

the plot turns are fairly

conventional.

There are foreshad-

owing images of a doll-

house whose miniature

setups might remind you of

the similarly chilling diora-

mas in “Hereditary,” a

superior entry in the hor-

ror cinema of anti-therapy.

There’s nothing wink-

wink postmodern about

“The Lodge,” though at the

same time, there isn’t much

conviction or heat in the

way it quietly shuffles

through its various refer-

ence points, either. The

haunted-house elements

are offset by a dash of sui-

cide-cult claptrap, com-

plete with flashbacks to

duct-taped bodies and

other sinister imagery

reminiscent of Jonestown

and Heaven’s Gate. It’s a

contrivance, designed to

get us thinking seriously

about the return of long-

repressed trauma, and also

about sin, guilt and re-

morse.

To that end, the movie’s

strongest asset is Keough,

an actress who can seize

and hold the screen with

electrifying force, but who

is no less powerful in her

quieter, more recessive

moments. In “The Lodge”

she plays a woman trying

desperately to do the right

thing in a bewildering

situation, lost in a fog that

is not entirely of her own

making. The key to her

insidious and frightening

performance is that by the

end you’re not sure

whether to fear her or fear

for her.

‘THE LODGE’ ★★★

Horror film gives peek into

world of trauma and grief

By Justin Chang
Los Angeles Times

Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell and Lia McHugh in “The Lodge.”

BERTRAND CALMEAEU/NEON

MPAA rating:R (for vi-

olence, bloody images,

language and brief nudity)

Running time:1:48