It's A Lemon: In My Life Reviews - Brantley's Included!

From broadway.com:

"It's hard to describe Joe Brooks' In My Life, except to say that it is undoubtedly the most bizarre, misguided Broadway musical of the millennium. Part love story, part parody, part opera, the schizophrenic show is one of those you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it experiences....

....In addition to ballads, campy parodies, and faux opera, In My Life boasts one more style of music: the jingle. Brooks, who made a fortune writing catchy tunes for TV commercials in the 1970s, has an ordinary guy in heaven named Al (Michael J. Farina) sing a ditty called "Volkswagen." Later, Al and Winston team up on "Listen to Your Mouth," a song-and-dance ode to Dr. Pepper performed with top hats and canes.

....For the big finale, Moyer provides a final image: a giant lemon. Early in the story, we learn that J.T. says "lemon" whenever he's happy. Still, it's hard not to see the fruity backdrop as a metaphor for Brooks' extremely odd musical, which most definitely is a lemon."

Updated On: 10/20/05 at 06:26 PM

Eh, who cares about the review - take a look at that video clip! How cool.

What/which video clip?

Care to add the URL?

I say the weirder the better!

And you're watching the show and you see these corridors of light show up onstage for actors to walk in and you're thinking, whoa, am I back watching The Light in the Piazza, only on drugs...

and you realize Christopher Akerlind did the lighting...

and you have just entered...

THE TWILIGHT ZONE!

Ladies and gentlemen, the mother load

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/theater/reviews/21life.html

Updated On: 10/20/05 at 08:30 PM

let us not forget Mr. Brantley's

"to trot out one sticky boy-band-style ballad after another"

and it is now the must see of the season

with branding!

Updated On: 10/20/05 at 09:05 PM

WHERE'S MARGO???

There WERE a few good things about this show. It's a shame that none of them will be pointed out in any of these reviews.

Jordan, it's a camp hit!

We just have to round up the campers...

I can only agree with you, MusicalComedyMan! I wanted to do cruel things to that girl. I loathe "performances" like that.

At the same time, I'm surprised that David Turner isn't raved about. He saves that show single-handedly by not taking it serious at all. Every line he delivers is a treat.

Updated On: 10/20/05 at 09:27 PM

When does the closing notice go up ?

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"And suddenly, as the breath was leaving my body, I realized I was drowning, drowning in a singing sea of syrup."

Wow.