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REVIEW: Roddy Doyle's 'The Commitments' Musical is All Jukebox, No Politics

Marvin Gaye and "Mustang Sally?" Check. Celtic Tiger...not so much. Novelist Roddy Doyle's The Commitments, about young people starting up a soul band in the harsh times of 1980s Ireland, has made it to the stage as a jukebox musical--filled with tunes and Irish charm, but shorn of most plot and political overtones.