Military personnel, preferably wearing Navy suits, should have papered that theatre. Ticket discounts to anyone in the military. Despite show officials insisting that promotions with the Navy are in the game plan, the night I saw the production not one audience member was in any military uniform. This show has been lacking something from the time it piped itself on board the Gershwin stage. Making her breakout performance in this production is Lea DeLaria, who plays the sex starved cab driver, Hildy - the part played by Betty Garrett in the movie.
All similarities end there.
At 33, the Illinois native gives a performance that demonstrates she is a star on the accendant. Also a stand out is Mary Testa as the inebriating vocal coach Maude P. Dilly. Over fifty years after it was written Presentation of Miss Turnstiles has some pithy lyrics that may even be more relevant today. Throughout the show I missed Jerome Robbins' choreorgraphy. Adrianne Lobel's scenery is inventive and brings meaning to the production.