We Will Mock You

Perched above London's Tottenham Court Road like a misplaced effigy of Saddam Hussein is the 20-foot fake-bronze statue of Freddie Mercury, late moustachioed lead singer of Queen. His image adorns the front of the Dominion Theater, where the sci-fi musical We Will Rock You plays to a packed house every night. The second act begins with a rendition of the group's 1980s hit "One Vision," used here as an ironic attack on homogenized, dull, global media culture. In the midst of the fast food...