←Recommendations of Fable

  • Larry Rinkel: Fable by Doug DeVita
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    This is such fun. It's rare I'll laugh out loud reading a script (actually rare I'll laugh at all), but Doug's rapid-fire, zany love letter to musical theater had me doing just that - with its spot-on caricatures of notables like Jerome Robbins and Ethel Merman, and its effortlessly virtuosic dramaturgy. What is truth? asks the play, and what is fable? So many balls being juggled as we don't know whose truth is being told and whose lies. A bit Rashomon-like, the play suggests that truth is largely a matter of one's perspective.

    This is such fun. It's rare I'll laugh out loud reading a script (actually rare I'll laugh at all), but Doug's rapid-fire, zany love letter to musical theater had me doing just that - with its spot-on caricatures of notables like Jerome Robbins and Ethel Merman, and its effortlessly virtuosic dramaturgy. What is truth? asks the play, and what is fable? So many balls being juggled as we don't know whose truth is being told and whose lies. A bit Rashomon-like, the play suggests that truth is largely a matter of one's perspective.

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  • Marj O'Neill-Butler: Fable by Doug DeVita
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    This play about the making of the musical Gypsy is imaginative and full of historical tidbits about the lives of "Baby" June, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Merman and others. It is cleverly written with flashbacks and and scenes of what might have taken place to get the show up and running. It was particularly interesting to me because a young girl in my dancing school played the original part of Rose and the backend of the cow. The piece easily moves between decades, all the while keeping the story flowing. Very clever piece.

    This play about the making of the musical Gypsy is imaginative and full of historical tidbits about the lives of "Baby" June, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Merman and others. It is cleverly written with flashbacks and and scenes of what might have taken place to get the show up and running. It was particularly interesting to me because a young girl in my dancing school played the original part of Rose and the backend of the cow. The piece easily moves between decades, all the while keeping the story flowing. Very clever piece.

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