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The Doobie Brothers reunite classic lineup for tour coming to Dallas

The Doobie Brothers will play at Dos Equis Pavilion on June 29 as part of their 2024 tour.

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Classic rock band The Doobie Brothers will come to Dallas as part of an extensive U.S. tour in summer 2024, playing at Dos Equis Pavilion on Saturday, June 29.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will travel to 38 cities across the country, starting in Seattle, Washington on June 15. They'll make a two-city swing through Texas two weeks later, including a stop in The Woodlands on June 30, with the tour continuing through August 30.

They'll be joined by special guest The Robert Cray Band at both Texas dates. Steve Winwood will be the special guest at various other concerts on the tour.

The classic lineup of Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons, and John McFee - which officially reunited for the Doobie Brothers' 50th anniversary tour for the first time in over 25 years - will be back together again.

The yacht rock band has released 15 albums in their 50+ year career, most recently Liberté in 2021. They also released a new single, “Lahaina,” in 2023. The song, which featured Mick Fleetwood, Jake Shimabukuro, and Henry Kapono, is in support of those affected by the devastating fires in Maui.

Selling nearly 50 million albums worldwide, the Doobie Brothers have had five top-10 singles, 16 top-40 hits, three multi-platinum albums, seven platinum albums, 14 gold albums, and own a rare diamond record for their 1976 album, Best of the Doobies.

Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, January 23 at 10 am until Thursday, January 25 at 10 pm through the Citi Entertainment program.

The general on sale begins on Friday, January 26 at 10 am at LiveNation.com.

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS: THE 2024 TOUR DATES

Sat., June 15 - Seattle, WA White River Amphitheater
Sun., June 16 - Ridgefield,WA RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
Tues., June 18 - Bend, OR Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Thurs., June 20 - Wheatland, CA Toyota Amphitheatre
Sat., June 22 - Concord, CA Concord Pavilion
Sun., June 23 - Los Angeles, CA The Kia Forum
Tues., June 25 - San Diego, CA North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
Wed., June 26 - Phoenix, AZ Footprint Center
Sat., June 29 - Dallas, TX Dos Equis Pavilion
Sun., June 30 - The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Tues., July 2 - Tulsa, OK BOK Center
Wed., July 3 - Durant, OK Choctaw Casino and Resort
Sat., July 6 - Rogers, AR Walmart AMP
Mon., July 8 - Jacksonville, FL Daily's Place
Wed., July 10 - West Palm Beach, FL iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
Thurs., July 11 - Tampa, FL MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sat., July 13 - Alpharetta, GA Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
Sun., July 14 - Knoxville, TN Thompson-Boling Arena
Tues., July 30 - Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion
Wed., July 31 - Raleigh, NC Coastal Credit Union Music Park
Sat., August 3 - Camden, NJ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Sun., August 4 - Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
Tues., August 6 - Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Wed., August 7 - New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Fri., August 9 - Bridgeport, CT Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
Sat., August 10 - Gilford, NH BankNH Pavilion
Mon., August 12 - Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center
Tues., August 13 - Saratoga Springs, NY Broadview Stage at SPAC
Thurs., August 15 - Clarkston, MI Pine Knob Music Theatre
Sat., August 17 - Noblesville, IN Ruoff Music Center
Sun., August 18 - Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Tues., August 20 - Burgettstown, PA The Pavilion at Star Lake
Thurs., August 22 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
Sat., August 24 - St. Louis, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sun., August 25 - Tinley Park, IL Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
Tues., August 27 - Omaha, NE CHI Health Center
Thurs., August 29 - Denver, CO Ball Arena
Fri., August 30 - Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheater

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Movie review

Over-the-top The Bride! makes other Frankenstein movies seem subtle

Photo by Niko Tavernise

Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in The Bride!.

The story of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster is now over 200 years old, with Mary Shelley’s book having been adapted or referenced in close to 500 films. Less common is the character of The Bride of Frankenstein, which existed in the original text but has more often than not been excised in adaptations. Writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal has tried to rectify that by giving the character a big showcase in her new film, The Bride!.

Gyllenhaal has reimagined the story as one in which a woman named Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes possessed by the spirit of Shelley (also Buckley). At the same time, the already-existing Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) approaches Dr. Euphronius (Annette Bening), who specializes in reanimation, with the request to make him a wife. When Ida falls to her death in an “accident” involving her boyfriend (John Magaro), the ideal corpse becomes available.

After Ida’s resurrection, she and the monster become restless being studied by Dr. Euphronius and decide to break out to experience the world. The world, naturally, is not exactly welcoming to them, and soon the couple are on the run for causing mayhem, including a few murders. In hot pursuit are detective Jake Wiles (Peter Sarsgaard) and his assistant, Myrna Mallow (Penélope Cruz), as well as other authorities.

It’s clear that Gyllenhaal wanted to merge the Frankenstein story with Bonnie & Clyde, especially since she sets the film in the mid-1930s. And that wouldn’t have been a bad idea if having the monster and The Bride going on a crime spree was truly the focus of the movie. But most of the time there’s less intentionality in their misdeeds and more confusion, leading to a muddled plot with no clear direction or end goal in mind.

One of the biggest problems is that Gyllenhaal starts the energy of the film at an 11, giving her and everyone else nowhere to go but down. She dabbles in multiple different tones, at times going the straight drama route and other times making what seems like full-on camp. At one point, she even has the monster and the Bride in a dance sequence set to “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” which would be hilarious as an homage to Young Frankenstein if the film weren’t so disjointed.

Most baffling of all is what Gyllenhaal wants from The Bride character. She morphs multiple times over the course of the film, from close to unintelligible at the beginning to rough-and-tumble at the end. There are hints at the lack of control she has over her autonomy, including Shelley’s possession of her and the monster lying to her about her past, but any commentary that Gyllenhaal might be trying to make gets lost amid the oddity of the film as a whole.

Both Buckley and Bale are all-in for their performances, which definitely fall in the “love it or hate it” dichotomy. Each scene is pitched so high that there’s little nuance to either of them, and neither is on par with their previous Oscar-caliber roles. The high-powered supporting cast of Bening, Sarsgaard, Cruz, and Jake Gyllenhaal is watchable based on previous roles, but none of them elevate this particular movie.

Whatever intentions Maggie Gyllenhaal had in making The Bride! are only halfway legible in a film that can never find its tonal footing. There has rarely been subtlety in movies featuring Frankenstein’s monster and related characters, but this one makes all the others seem like stuffy dramas in comparison.

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The Bride! is now playing in theaters.

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