Three Pianos

Player-performers Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy sing their own irreverent version of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, ply us with booze and reflect (at the top of their lungs) on music’s power to heal heartache. Director Rachel Chavkin lets the evening follow the rush-and-dawdle patterns of a real debauch, full of woozy lulls and gleeful reaccelerations. If the show has lost a bit of its rollick in moving to a larger venue, its endearing erudition still makes an audience feel physically embraced.—Helen Shaw