(Seen 5/25/11)
Tediously woven around an interesting story based on the real life of Wyatt Earp's widow, this intimate musical takes us back and forth in time, in flashbacks, from 1944 to 1879, and forward from there. It involves the various women in Wyatt Earp's extended family. Mostly it chronicles the journey of Josephine Marcus, a Boston Jewish debutant, and her adventures and travails as she goes traveling with a women's musical troupe to the Wild West.
She meets Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, Arizona, and they fall in love. But he has a complicated household, and this musical tries to tell the saga through the eyes and hearts of the varied women connected to him, including Josephine's sad story.
With a book by Thomas Edward West and Sheilah Rae, lyrics by Ms. Rae, and music by Michele Brourman, this all-female cast is uniformly good, the music pleasant, and the lyrics informative. But the show never takes flight, and Clara Reichel's direction is little more than traffic control in a tiny playing area.
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Observations by Ira J. Bilowit
He has been writing about the theatre in numerous publications for over fifty years, and has been involved in producing and writing for the theatre during same period.
Professionally, he is a member of the DRAMA DESK (former Vice Pres.), the American Theatre Critics Association, the Dramatists Guild, and the International Association of Theatre Critics.
Former Managing Editor/Feature Writer/Reviewer for SHOW BUSINESS; Editor/Publisher of New York Theatre Review; Contributing Editor/Feature Writer for BACK STAGE.