Listen To It Awesome

A Mary's Hideaway presentation of the musical in 2 functions with music by Phillip Swann, additional music by Jim Andron, Michael Cruz, Marilyn Harris, Emilio Palame, Ray Steelman lyrics by Mark Winkler book by Martin Casella and Ray Dean Harris, created by Harris. Direction by Sharon Rosen.Henry - Michael F. McGuirkbr/>Lena - Robyn HurderMary - Sally MayesWill - Michael BuchananEddie - Chris HochThere is really a subset of Off Broadway musicals which include five approximately folks inside a bar who sing of affection and loss for a few hrs before everybody goes home unhappy. The figures, that's, even though malaise very frequently stretches towards the audience. The producers of "Listen To It Awesome," in the Acorn, a minimum of come with an ace within the hole: Sally Mayes, who grabs our attention if he or she offer her an audio lesson about jazz, love, or even the thrill of putting on men's suits, and therefore prevents the evening (and something suspects half the crowd) from wisping away. Story concentrates on a Hollywood nightclub, Mary's Hideaway, stashed with no sign outdoors the doorway. Those things begins having a nineteen forties-noir private eye covered with trenchcoat and stage fog, this even though the show is decidedly non-noirish and also the time is 1953. This can be a "funny" club, we're told, and never as with '-' funny. The non-public detective works out not to become a private eye he's a plainclothes cop, who makes Mary's Hideaway to gather his $200 payola after which just sits there through a few days of plotting. The cop extorting money from Mary (Mayes) is, understand this, Mary's ex-brother-in-law -- they're keen on one another she makes him a sandwich -- and despite getting a loyal offstage wife works out to possess a secret of their own (even though it ain't not a secret to anybody following a story). Also on tap really are a sexy woman singer, who's itchiness for any movie contract and calls Mary "mother" (though not within the parent/child sense) a slimy MGM producer from the Arthur Freed unit along with a sweet youthful boy-singer just from the bus who's catnip towards the older males. None of the matters as long as Mayes stands there and sings. Michael Buchanan, because the sweet youthful factor, works out to possess a fine voice themself he even holds their own in the second act duets with Mayes. The relaxation from the cast simply works the fabric, such because it is. Show, started in the Celebration Theater in La and additional developed at both NY Musical Theater Festival and also the National Alliance for Musical Theater festival, involves the commercial Off Broadway stage with five stars, three music artists, and believe it or not than nine credited authors. Lyricist Mark Winkler, the only real sole-specialist one of the group, boasts in the program bio that he's the coauthor of "Naked Boys Singing." You will find no naked boys here, even though boys hug the boys and also the women hug the women and everyone sings.Choreography by Marc Kimelman. Music direction by David Libby. Set, Thomas A. Walsh costumes, Therese Bruck lighting, N Sullivan seem, Carl Casella and Peter Fitzgerald music supervisor and arranger, Joe Baker production stage manager, Jane Pole. Opened up Sept. 14, 2011, examined Sept. 11. Runs through March. 9. Running time: 2 Hrs. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com