[NEohioPAL] Review of touring "On Your Feet!"

[Bob Abelman]

Charisma and conga carry touring ‘On Your Feet!’



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics



Punctuation in a play’s title is more than just grammatically effective.  It’s instructive.



The slash in “If/Then,” for instance, offers insight into the show’s narrative structure.  The brackets and lowercasing in “[title of show]” embody the production's impertinence. The question mark in “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” suggests the very dramatic ambiguity that dominates Edward Albee’s play.



And then there is the exclamation point.



In “Oklahoma!” the punctuation turns the title into a definitive statement about the musical’s significance.  The same exclamation point is intentionally sarcastic in “Something Rotten!”  



And then there’s “On Your Feet!”  Currently on tour and on stage at Playhouse Square, the punctuation is a demand that the audience breach theater protocol and get up and dance in the aisles.  No encouragement is necessary.



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