the most extravagantly realized 13 minutes of musical nothing NYMF - or any theatre festival - has ever seen

[BROADWAYFAN3]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 8:09am

The Children (excerpts)

Theatre Review Talkin Broadway


...The Children visits all the expected parodic places, complete with detours through gratuitous nudity (male and female), a stage full of severed hands, and plenty of high-pitched shrieking. Is it entertaining? Undoubtedly; director Tony Speciale has staged the piece within an inch of its lovingly low-budget life, and scarcely a moment passes without a joke of some sort, which ensures quite a few will hit. And with a cast including Off-Off-Broadway comedy superstar Jeff Hiller as a lanky zombie boy and a man-hungry mother, Jonathan Rayson as a concerned father, and Tally Sessions as a duty-bound sheriff, the material is impeccably performed...
...Thanks to the 10 talented performers, the book and songs hit their marks effectively in the moment

...a bizarrely lengthy sequence in the second half that charts Sessions and Rayson's time-sensitive zombie investigation while a horny Hiller (in a fabulously frumpy wig) vampily tries to reach them by radio. The resulting musical scene, which utilizes some terrific music and beautifully blended vocals, is probably the most extravagantly realized 13 minutes of musical nothing NYMF - or any theatre festival - has ever seen.





http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/09_17_06.html

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 8:21am

Does he mean that as a compliment?

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 9/18/06 at 9:39am

Yeah, that section of the show was Amazing. The rest of the show was ok.