Who isn’t playing a rock star on stage? You got Stereophonic hipsters cutting an epic LP circa 1976 while Maleah Joi Moon tickles the ivories as the teenage Alicia Keys in Hell’s Kitchen. Actors have been impersonating Michael Jackson and Neil Diamond for years now. And a whole Huey Lewis jukebox musical was built around a fictional couple trying to make it in pop. But by far the most authentic guitar heroes currently melting faces are Lauren Patten and Iman Jones" class="company-link">Taylor Iman Jones in The Lonely Few. These iron-lunged ladies may be Broadway veterans (Patten from Jagged Little Pill and Iman Jones from Six), but they make damn convincing rockers in a show that tries to balance drama with the sweaty ecstasy of a concert.

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For its extended opening sequence, The Lucky Few gives glorious dive-bar grunge. The titular band, fronted by Patten’s petite but mighty-voiced Lila, tears into a........

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