3:40
The big news about ”I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” playing at Cohoes Music Hall weekends through May 23, is that it’s the first area indoor theater production in over a year. The good news is that though the material is inconsistent, it’s a well-performed, swiftly directed effort that provides a lot of laughs.
“I Love You…” is a lighthearted evening of comedy and song that will warm the heart of anyone who loves theater. The cast of four is relentless in its energetic desire to make the audience laugh. This is a hard-working, talented quartet that is asked to create almost 60 characters in a two-hour period and make them distinctive and funny. Most work well, a few miss completely, and others are moderately entertaining. However, overall, it’s admirable work.
5:06
With the summer arts scene almost upon us, I offer a word of advice. Buy your tickets early.
A second piece of advice is to learn to love your GPS, as most organizations are using new venues in order to perform outdoors.
This year, very little will be familiar to the audience.
To accommodate federal and state safety guidelines attendance at most venues will be extremely limited. It also appears that the number of performances will shrink as well. And, to find outdoor performance spaces there has been a lot of innovation.
As an example of adjusting spaces and how this affects ticket supply, Saratoga Performing Arts Center recently announced the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s season. The group will perform twice a day, almost every Sunday mid-June thru late-August at Pitney Meadows Community Farm in Saratoga. Seating is limited to 200 people a performance and tickets went on sale to the general public on April 6. The entire series is already sold out.
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5:38
It’s not often you get to write a review that is also a preview. However, since the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s world premiere of the musical “Row” has just been released by Audible Theatre and almost simultaneously with the release it was announced it would be given a live production at the festival this summer, this is a two-for-one recommendation for the show.
“Row” is one of the most satisfying works I’ve encountered in a very long time as the material works on many levels. It effectively captures the excitement of Tori Murden trying to be the first woman to row alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Even more important, it captures the soul of an individual who despite amazing personal accomplishments needs a type of monastic journey to find peace and satisfaction with her life.
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