The cast features Broadway and television veterans Millicent Martin, Misty Cotton, Sam Zeller, Robert Machray, and Jennifer Malenke, as well as Jeffrey Rockwell, Brandon Michael Perkins, Monica Smith, Kevin Symons, Carly Nykanen, and Danny Bolero. Yes, that Robert Machray is yours truly. Suffice it to say I’m marvelous as Steven’s boss. But more to the point I wanted to point out some of the fine work being done by the rest of the aforementioned cast, especially by newcomer Brandon Perkins (Steven) who has a beautiful sweet voice and an endearing acting style. He should have a nice career. It is also an honor and a pleasure to work with the veteran Millicent Martin who sparkles in her role as the daft Mrs. Clark, an “obstinate old bat whose wretched cottage is standing in the way of a fifteen million pound half-completed shopping mall”. Steven has been assigned by his boss, me, to get her off the land.
Written by lyricist Mary Stewart-David and composer Chris Walker, the varied and hummable songs evoke everything from the music of the “Roaring Twenties” to Sondheim - something for everyone. Musical director Dennis Castellano and choreographer Karen Nowicki round out the creative team. Playing at until March 2.
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1 - Dr Dreadful
I was in a Cooney play once, It Runs in the Family. Some of the best fun I've ever had on a stage.
The plot for this one sounds very like the premise of a 1990s BBC sitcom, Goodnight Sweetheart, which starred Nicholas Lyndhurst as an electrician who discovers a wormhole in space/time connecting him to World War II. Although married, he starts a relationship with a woman in the 1940s and ends up marrying her as well, his reasoning being that he's not committing bigamy as his 1990s wife hasn't been born yet. Much farcical mileage is got from this ostensibly 'best of both worlds' situation.