Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Mary Testa is divine. So divine, in fact, that I spent much of this show imagining a film version featuring The Divine Miss M. I've never seen work by Mr. Lachiusa (sacrilege, I know), but I've been told that he is often innovative, and I have limited taste for "innovation." In Queen of the Mist, innovation was simply not on the menu--and thank heaven for that! This is a new story indeed told in a very traditional musical comedy style. A quintet supports Mary Testa's Anne Edson Taylor, who famously was the first person to descend Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive way back in 1901. Their numbers are all show, straight out of turn-of-the-century vaudeville--and what fun they are! These numbers provide great counterpoint to Ms. Testa's angst ridden tomes--all-in-all creating a fabulous evening at the theatre.
Queen of the Mist is scheduled to run at The Gym at Judson Church on Washington Square South through November 20. Tickets can be purchased here.
Queen of the Mist was commissioned by Transport Group Theatre Company and is the first production of Transport Group's ten-year cycle, "The 20th Century Project," exploring themes from each decade in the 20th century. Queen of the Mist takes place during the first decade, 1900-1910.
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