“The show is about WOMEN … not about theater,” writer/producer Jeanie Linders says in a press-kit Q&A about Menopause: The Musical. OK, then how to evaluate it? Women? Two thumbs up! Five stars! Must see! But this show? Dismal.
Chicago
Perhaps you remember the wonderful scene in the 1979 Bob Fosse film All That Jazz in which Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi-playing the Fosse stand-in Joe Gideon’s girlfriend and teenage daughter, respectively-perform a little living-room jazz-dance number for Roy Scheider, who plays Gideon. The performance is a lovely, homey respite from Gideon’s hectic speed-and-booze-fueled preparation […]