A musical trip down Memory Lane with music of the 1920s, '30s, '40s, and '50s . Menacingly, the very early going confirms these fears, and we begin to wonder if we shouldn't have ordered just one final cocktail before the performing waiters headed off for costumes and makeup. There are some clich s of musical staging here, but given the material, it's what we expect and want.
Entrances are sufficiently quick and varied as to make one dizzy.
The blues come slinking down a bright red lighted staircase. In a tribute to the WWII years the USO, the Andrews Sisters roll in on a military vehicle. This is a whirlwind journey to be sure, but the performers are so good at what they're about, each performer manages to leave his or her individual stamp by evening's end. Of particular note is the explosively powerful singing of Cathy Mundy , and the comic and dance timing of David James , especially as the 1950s high school nerd in Act Two. But to single out individuals in a show with so much emphasis on ensemble work, and a level of talent so consistently uniform throughout, would result in a review that would put excessive demands on the bandwidth.