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Fri 11 Nov 2006Why Bob bombed on BroadwayWHAT has Bob Dylan done to deserve this? First reports reach us from Broadway, where The Times They Are A-Changing (or, to put it in a more stirring way, Dylan - The Musical) opened last week. And first reports are not good.Even on the Great White Way, where "jukebox musicals" have long been inflicted on an otherwise blameless public, the New York Times decided "these spectacles of torture with a smile, frightening though they may be, are but bagatelles compared with the systematic steamrolling of Bob Dylan."