...And Piano Make Three
Philadelphia Citypaper.net (accessed September 11, 2008)
Boy meets girl. Boy has piano. Girl has a coloratura soprano vocal range. And there’s a story about a piano, which happens to be jealous, that runs between the two humans. If this were written by Tom Waits, the piano would be drunk and doing stupid things to the star-crossed love duo. But it’s the show’s pianist/composer, Philip Seward, doing his Gershwin-esque best to present a cosmopolitan love affair (with Patrice Boyd as the romantic lead and singer) that brings elements of Woody Allen’s Manhattan and Nora Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally to the table.
—A.D. Amorosi
Aug. 31, 3 and 7 p.m.; Sept. 1, 3 p.m.; Sept. 5, 9 p.m.; Sept. 6, 3 p.m.; $20, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St.
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... And Piano Make Three
by Midsummer Moon Productions
Running Time: 60 minutes
City Paper Review:
Anyone who has dated a workaholic can identify with this cabaret act about a singer trying to coax her composer boyfriend away from his piano -- here personified to comic effect as jealous Steinway Elsie. All the better if you like opera since the entire show is sung, at times in tones so high that only the piano -- also capable of a high F -- can understand (judging from how co-star coloratura Patrice Boyd eventually wins Elsie over). The musical rendering of Boyd and Philip Seward’s relationship’s consummation is also the climax of this slight but clever operetta.
—Carolyn Wyman
Painted Bride Art Center
230 Vine Street
# Sunday, August 31st @ 03:00, $20
# Sunday, August 31st @ 07:00, $20
# Monday, September 1st @ 03:00, $20
# Friday, September 5th @ 09:00, $20
# Saturday, September 6th @ 03:00, $20