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Four Chords and a Gun reduces the Ramones from punks to adolescent brats

by Catey Sullivan

Hey! Ho! Don't go! John Ross Bowie's 90-minute drama purports to be about the creation of the Ramones' album End of the Century, but it's actually about a quartet of posturing man-children whose most memorable characteristics are homophobia, misogyny, and surliness. In addition to the four Ramones (Justin Goodhand as Joey, Cyrus Lane as Johnny, Paolo Santalucia as Dee Dee, and James Smith…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 7:00am on May 22, 2019