5-star rating for entertainment and trip down memory lane. To hear my review, click on the play button.
This is a play that will take you back to the 1950s: smoking is good for you, any decent man carries at least 2 handguns at home, women’s occupation was limited to housewife….and whiskey is a potion that cures everything.
The WW show has been on air for close to 3 years, with a faithful weekly following. As the Buckey Wheat band gets us in the mood with the suave saxophone piece by Sony Rollins (St Thomas) a few minutes prior to air time, Dick Powell announces that TV-host Jack Lancaster has just dropped dead, leaving the cast the responsibility to carry on without him. Dick Powell is a ladies’ man who is rumoured to have 4 ex-wives and 5 children without ever getting married; Professor Smoats is the show’s official bartender whose mysterious eye patch clearly suggests that bar-tending is not his only skill; Risqué yet naïve divorcée Mirelda Shorts; Chester Knuckles the “Uh Oh!” boy with beyond-the-ordinary facial expressions; and Nicky Darling, “a very young Jerry Lewis” who like him, uses slapstick humor.
July 16-26 at Le Gymnase.
