A great review! Go team!
Amidst all the good things in the review, she does point out one of the flaws with the script: Because it’s one man playing 37 people, some of the characters are written a little stereotypically. I think we worked hard, on the stage, to make those people as real as possible. I don’t, however, think her point is unwarranted. Still, when you’ve only got a small handful of scenes to work with for many of the characters, and when they’re DESIGNED to be stereotypical representations of a person or people, you do the best you can and move on to other, solvable, challenges.
Despite the flaw in the script, she praises the production, acting, directing, sound crew and set. Not bad! 🙂 She does, in particular, heap praise upon Aral Gribble – and quite deservedly. He’s wonderful in the show and I’d love to see him get the credit he deserves.
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Tony Caselli 
Congrats!
hey there Tony – what a great review for you and Aral. I just have to say one small thing, however. As one who has worked in the customer service industry (that is what the box office for a theatre is, after all) I would like to just note that although the script is perhaps a little stereotypical with a few of the characters, I personally recognized and identified many if not most of the characters as people (attitudes/accents/assumptions/degrees of rudeness) who I have actually dealt with on the phone.
I thought that you and Mr. Gribble were able to find tiny moments that helped these characters to be more than caricatures.
Re: Congrats!
Thanks, D-Wo, I appreciate that. It’s funny, someday I’m going to do a study on the relationship between an Archetype and a Stereotype… I think it would be interesting!