Drop everything on your schedule and go see this show immediately. I haven’t said anything this serious all week. Never mind your queasiness with the form, just GO. The show is a wonderful sampling of master American composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein’s work, and it’s worth every penny and moment you’ll spend on it. Beautifully directed by Robert Neu, the artistic team delivers a lovely and balanced production of this little-known “opera in seven scenes”. It’s quick-paced, charming, unsettling, and fantastic. The musicians are gifted, the choreography is exactly right, and I found myself wishing the hour would last longer. The score contains lingering traces of Bernstein’s better-known earlier musical “On The Town”, and hints at his crowning popular achievement five years later — West Side Story. We’re lucky it made it through the Fringe lottery.
So stop reading this and go get your ticket.
My Fringe show: Obey.
