Emmy-winning writer and performer
Leslie Caveny (Everybody Loves Raymond)
pulls out all the stops in this madcap view of one woman’s screwed-up life and how,
with grim determination, she intends to make it right.
More stand-up comedy
than legitimate theater, Caveny plays a troubled gal doing a one-woman show
where she forgets the lines, the prompts, and eventually all sense of decorum.
As she drags her mother (or two) up from the audience, the performance spins
off into an ever-shifting confrontation with her presumed past. 
Added to this are amusing conflicts with her girlish stage manager (Anne Leyden), her
all-business lighting man (Frank Gangarossa), her hostile surrogate stage
mother (Sheila Shaw), her reluctant 2nd mom (Seemah Wilder), and the
Audience, until it’s all-out war. Having often experienced the reality of backstage
conflicts during intense rehearsals, there is a recognizable sense of reality to
this otherwise fanciful show.
The topical songs are aided
by hidden accompanist Tom Adams, with clever lighting by Yancey Dunham, and colorful
projections by Austin Quan. The improvisational tone is captured throughout by Maria
Burton’s artful direction. Produced by Benjamin Scuglia.
At Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga
Blvd West, Los Angeles, (near Universal City). Sundays at 7 pm through
November 27.
Reservations: 323-851-7977 or Online Ticketing: www.theatrewest.org.
Running
time 70 Minutes. FREE parking in lot across the street.
Photos by Garry Kluger.
Also reviewed in the
October issue of NOT BORN YESTERDAY.
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