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Well worth seeing!
Part of Prospect Theaters "Dark Nights" series, this musical exploration of key moments in the life of one character--seven short musicals each by a different music/book/lyrics team --is a gentle, tuneful, thoughtful and thought-provoking evening that showcases the work of writing teams with vastly different styles, melding their pieces into a production that develops the character through "snapshot" moments of her life, simultaneously giving us insight into the culture in which she and we live. The music is divine, with a few show-stopping numbers, particularly one song sung by Stacey Scotte, who plays the characters mother. Ms. Scotte and Jennifer Blood, who delivers a fine performance as the main character from the time she is a small child to when she is 75 also do a particularly meaningful mother-daughter number: "Sometimes You Have to Work from the Outside-In" Music Brian Feinstein/ Books & Lyrics, Amanda Yesnowtiz. Maria Couch draws laughs in the pentultimate piece as an aging shut-in. Reversing the chronology presumably one of the strong directing decisions of Dev Bondarin, the evening ends, as it should around Valentines Day, with a song about modern love. An evening well spent.

Reviewed by piaeldridge on Tuesday, Feb 16th, 2010

So worth seeing
Part of Prospect Theaters "Dark Nights" series, this musical exploration of key moments in the life of one character--seven short musical "moments" each by a different music/book/lyrics team --is a gentle, thoughtful, tuneful evening that packs more of a wallop than expected. Prospects other yearly labs like this have been clever and wonderful, but this production raises the bar on the series as it takes on the development of a single character in "snapshot" moments of her life, simultaneously showing us the culture in which she and we live. The music is divine, with a few show-stopping numbers, particularly one song sung by Stacey Scotte, who plays the characters mother. Ms. Scotte and Jennifer Blood, who delivers a fine performance as the main character from the time she is a small child to when she is 75 also do a particularly meaningful mother-daughter number: "Sometimes You Have to Work from the Outside-In," Music Brian Feinstein/ Books & Lyrics, Amanda Yesnowtiz. Maria Couch draws laughs in the pentultimate piece as an aging shut-in. Reversing the chronology presumably one of the strong directing decisions of Dev Bondarin, the evening ends, as it should around Valentines Day, with a song of modern love. An evening well spent.

Reviewed by piaeldridge on Tuesday, Feb 16th, 2010