A Turtle On A Fence Post
A Turtle On A Fence Post
65% 110 reviews
65%
(110 Ratings)
Positive
57%
Mixed
22%
Negative
21%
Members say
Entertaining, Great singing, Clever, Great acting, Indulgent

A new musical about a prominent New Yorker whose world is thrown into turmoil by the state's most powerful man.

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Critic Reviews (3)

New York Stage Review
November 15th, 2021

"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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TheaterScene.net
November 16th, 2021

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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Front Row Center
November 16th, 2021

"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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