[NEohioPAL] Review of "Dogfight" at Beck Center for the Arts

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

In Beck Center's 'Dogfight,' no one comes out a winner

Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics 

 

 

"Dogfight" is difficult to like.

 

This 2012 Off-Broadway musical by Peter Duchan, born from an off-beat 1991 non-musical indie film by Bob Comfort, features one of the nastiest boy-meets-girl scenarios imaginable. 

 

It is 1963 and several young Marines decide to celebrate their last evening stateside by holding a "dogfight" - a long-standing tradition of bringing girls to a party to determine, without their knowledge, who is the ugliest.  Each man antes $50 and heads off to find a date.  

 

Handsome, cocksure and emotionally stunted Eddie Birdlace happens into a diner and finds Rose - a shy, unattractive and ungainly young waitress - who he easily manipulates into accompanying him to the party.  What is, for her, a rare and wonderful night out with a boy is a way to kill some time, win some cash and have some laughs at another's expense for him.

 

For more of this review, go to:  http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/article_bf229980-affa-11e4-bcc3-ab6d370a51b5.html

 
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