Gunfight at the Not-So-OK Saloon

Musicals & Operas · brooke derosa · Ages 13+ · United States of America

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Review by CARSON GILMORE

June 17, 2019 certified reviewer
tagged as: burlesque · western · parody · operetta

What I liked

The show was well-suited to an intimate venue, not only in scope but in length and blocking. Casting was superb.

What I didn't like

The balance of the audio track and the performers’ vocals could have been more consistent.

My overall impression

An crackerjack ensemble of great performers brought Brooke DeRosa’s burlesque operetta to genuinely hilarious life. The show, a sharp stew of American vaudeville, Gilbert and Sullivan, and murder-mystery dinner theater, packed far more than its one-hour’s run time worth of well-timed gags, cornball Western anthems and choreographed ensembles—and all delivered with wonderful vocal finesse, and directed simply and crisply by Jennifer Clymer.

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