Tom Waits: There's Only Alice
Mark Cooper, Rock's Backpages, March 2024
"DON'T ASK ME any more questions!" groans an exasperated Tom Waits, hunching over an old stand-up piano in the corner of a rehearsal room at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Christmas 1992 is a week away and Tom has less than 48 hours until the opening night of Alice, his second collaboration with the American minimalist theatre director Robert Wilson.
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