Fellow SAMM Email Group Members,

Below is a Sacramento News & Review review of the play I am in:

Here is a link to the review:
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=631834

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme / The Middle Class Aristocrat

By Kel Munger

4 out of 5
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme / The Middle Class Aristocrat; 8 p.m. Fridays
and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays; $15-$20; California Stage, 1723 25th
Street; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. Through March 22.

California Stage and the Alliance Française de Sacramento's
collaborative production of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme / The
Middle Class Aristocrat doesn't require extensive knowledge of French
to be enjoyed. Even if your French is merde, the shenanigans onstage
made the initial, French-language production of the play relatively
easy to follow.

But farce is farce, which is why it translates so well. Who doesn't
love to see a dope duped? James Craig Anderson (Monsieur Jourdain/Mac
Gordon) is marvelous in both his social-climbing roles and easily as
funny in French as he is in English. Of course, he's helped a great
deal by a supporting cast that's more than willing to get silly.

There are intrigues, costume changes, deceptions, a glimpse of
belly-dancing skin and the constant running in and out of doors broad
comedy requires. Bonnie Antonini is delightful as the long-suffering
wife, and the wide-eyed Patrick Beech is almost as much the ingénue as
his beloved, Lucille/Lucy (Jessica Nufeld). The sets are open and
flexible, which gives all involved plenty of room to strut/wriggle
their stuff. Who said culture had to be stuffy? This is traditional
theater, and it's about as unstuffed as it gets.


End of review.

4 out of 5 stars!

Because of rehearsals, I may have to miss the March 13, 2008,
Thursday, SAMM meeting.

Bernie
Bernard E. Scoville
Webmaster of SAMM ( http://www.samm.netfirms.com/ )