"In closing, I feel obligated to mention that, convincing as Turtle on a Fence Post is regarding its political history, it’s still one side of the Morris-Cuomo story. Could it be that wherever Cuomo is hunkering these days, he’s not so much planning a comeback as working up a Revenge-Answer musical?"
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Unfolding from a stand-up comedy routine—“A prisoner walks into a bar…!”—and set in a comedy venue designed with ingenuity and style by Walt Spangler, Turtle veers from hokey to horrible helped by the spiffy routines staged by choreographer Kenny Ingram in over-the-top, sometimes kitschy, routines.
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"With its numerous vignettes and songs, the piece is choppy and overlong. It does have potential, however. As a vehicle for a tale of a personal journey through trial to redemption, Morris’s real life story is well poised for success but only if the author cuts extraneous scenes and redundancies. He has tried to pack too many bells and whistles into one tale."
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