‘Stereophonic’ at the Curran – Tony-winner goes behind the music and inside the mind

Clare DeJean, left, as Diana, Emilie Kouatchou as Holly, and Denver Milord as Peter performed in the first national tour of “Stereophonic.”

Photo: Julieta Cervantes

The national tour of “Stereophonic,” now playing at the Curran Theatre, arrives boasting a mantleful of five 2024 Tony Awards, including best play (David Adjmi) and best direction (Daniel Aukin). It’s indeed a fine piece of writing, brought to meticulously detailed life by an extraordinary touring cast that plays its roles with an organic naturalism that frequently makes the show feel like a staged version of a documentary film.   Taking place almost entirely in a state-of-the-art Sausalito recording studio in 1976, the show chronicles the constantly simmering, but only occasionally explosive, quotidian details of a British-A