Part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival: In this Jazz-Age musical, the surviving member of a prominent Georgia family invites a fortuneteller to his plantation to divine who killed his long-dead parents.
See it if You are looking for a well casted musical with great songs and a refreshingly original plot. You like eerie murder mysteries.
Don't see it if You are looking for the normal bells and whistles of Broadway in terms of set, seating, etc.
See it if you like any musical. storyline is hard to follow and takes place in Savannah. light opera? family strife? mystery? mystical?make sense?
Don't see it if you expect a coherent experience. everyone singing on key. more than a piano. well-defined characters. reason for so many in cast.
See it if You like new material with potential, enjoy murder mysteries, like history
Don't see it if You want great acting, deep character development, are hard of hearing
See it if Patience & ears allow enduring a well-acted yet poorly sung by non-singers inaudible-at-10-feet production with potential &interesting score
Don't see it if Plot matters: game non-singers in over their heads keeping up with a complicated score results in an incomprehensible storyline and ending. Read more
See it if you like operatic singing with a range of the same 6 or 7 notes (great for sleeping) - the cast was talented - some of the voices were great
Don't see it if you can't sit through an unedited story where all the songs sound the same which is amazing because they were written by different people.
See it if You simply have to see all New Theater productions to measure their progress
Don't see it if You enjoy musicals and we'll written stories that you can follow along with
See it if you have the time for a meaningless, unsatisfying adventure in the theatre. Time better spend wandering the neighborhood.
Don't see it if There is really nothing to recommend about this show. Sorry!
See it if You enjoy musicals in minor key, entirely accompanied by piano, and you want to see new artists and composers.
Don't see it if You enjoy mainstream musicals, or you're looking for a halfway decent musical. This is not well done.