Thursday, April 2, 2009

"Play On!"

Perhaps my sometimes exasperating experiences in the annual Sisterhood Play of my shul make me uniquely suited to enjoy this sort of comedy, but last night I attended the YCDS performance of a very clever show entitled, "Play On!" and I enjoyed it immensely.
The play is about an amateur theatre company preparing for a murder mystery they are about to perform. The first act is a rehearsal four days before the show, the second act is dress rehearsal and the last act is opening night.
While the actors and the play were far from polished, I was ROLLING in the aisles, gasping for breath.  Of course, the 'play within the play' was not going smoothly at all, with absentee cast members, flubbing of lines, script rewrites, prop difficulties, snarkiness between cast members.... you know all the things that never happen in real life ;)
I think our Sisterhood should rewrite this play and do it next year.
(Of course, we'd have to cut a few things.............. :D )

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who has time for this right before Pesach ?

G6 said...

Ummmm..... I DO....
[Don't you just looove how the commenters taking the potshots are always "Anonymous" :) ]

I'm sure Anonymous spends EVERY SINGLE NIGHT all night long preparing for Pesach and never takes one and a half hours off for a little r & r....

Yeah, I bet YOU'RE a real peach to be around seder night ;)

YELLING ANONYMOUS PERSON said...

STOP BERATING YOUR COMMENTERS!!!

YOU WILL HAVE NO ONE LEFT!!!!

DON'T KNOCK ANONYMOUS POSTERS UNTIL YOU HAVE BEEN IN THEIR SHOES!!!

G6 said...

YAP...
You made my day!
Thanks for stopping by and being your wonderful ornery self.
YOU are welcome on my blog any time.

efrex said...

I'm not familiar with "Play On" (actually, I know a different show by the same title; a Duke Ellington revue loosely based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"... c'mon, hasn't everybody heard of it?), but if you're looking for a show about backstage shenanigans, you gotta check out Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," which also follows a cast of performers through hilariously disastrous onstage and offstage hijinks.