My overall impression
As a writer of a festival musical, [Title of Show] struck a particular chord with me. I hadn’t listened to the soundtrack since beginning my own “festival medley,” and the opportunity to see it live and in front of me at Fringe turned out to be a complete delight.
With sharp staging, sparkling performances and a bright, clipping pace, the director and cast of Theatre Unleashed/Village Idiom’s production gave both airy lightness and thoughtful gravity to the piece. They even buoyed the flaws in the material. The scenes and songs that describe the production – as opposed to the development – of the musical-within-a-musical never hold my attention as much as the earlier scenes and songs do, but with a cast this winning and talented, and a show so well staged, they still held my attention and my affection throughout.
