Posted: 5/9/24 at 10:17pm
I had to reschedule my day so I was up at 3am to fly back to NY and the last thing I wanted to do tonight was use the tickets for "All of Me" that I had but I've waited my whole life to see Kyra Sedgwick so I dragged myself down the street to the theater tonight and hot damn, did I make the right decision to go.
I figured that this play that centers around two disabled people (Madison Ferris & Danny J. Gomez) would be touching, which it absolutely was, but what I didn't expect was that this is genuinely one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Like repeatedly lough out loud for almost two hours funny. And it works so well because Laura Winters' fabulous script is performed by this remarkably strong ensemble of actors led by Madison Ferris who I had forgotten was in that Sally Field "Glass Menagerie" a few years back. But here she gets to SHINE.
Walking home it hit me that my favorite musical of the year (and I think it's fair to classify it as that) was "I Love You So Much I Could Die" and now this which will easily end up on my top 10 of the year list, but that's two shows relying on text to speech software. Yes, it's used for different reasons but it shows that in the right hands this kind of technology can be used to open up an entirely new world of voices for actors.
This is something special and I hope people go and discover it for themselves. This gets the Jordan Catalano Blue Ribbon/5 Star prize.
