Vernel Bagneris has decided to do One Mo' Time again, and nobody is
going to complain. His tribute to the great performers who worked the New Orleans' Lyric Theatre in the '20s is as vibrant now as it was the first time around in 1979, when Bagneris first edged his lithe frame out, along with colleagues, to enliven more sparkling, old-timey material than you could shake a pig's foot at. The shuffle-along show may even be more exhilarating now; the previous, long-running production at the Village Gate was in much more confined surroundings and, presumably, had a much smaller budget.

Now at the Longacre, within a Broadway proscenium and under a partial secondary proscenium, there's room for[...]