First up is "Yank". It is a new musical, with new music designed to sound very 1940s. It was great. The story is about two guys that falling love in World War II. But it is much less than a gay love story and much more the story of people. In the 1940s there was no "gay", so these 2 people just fell in love. And the acting is amazing. One guy is really gay off stage and one is straight and married with kids. But the aching - which he barely shows but clearly does, is stupendous.
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Yeah, it gets bogged down for a while at the end (just because you are making a 1940's musical doesn't mean you have to do it all - the dream ballet is just painful). But I loved it. Everyone did - the show has been extended at the off-Broadway house and I would not be surprised to see it return to a bigger house or on Broadway - that is how good parts of it are.
The second show is "Glee Club" about a group of mature Vermonters, who share a passion for singing. $25 could NOT be better spent. I laughed my freakin' ass off. PS - Steve from Blues Clues is in the show. In the back row.
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No, not that one, the one all the way on the right (the bald one). He plays a singing crazy person (he shows the persona of mad scientist / serial killer). It is a "guy show" with jokes, asides and actions that only guys can truly understand (the women in the audience thought it was funny but absurd - the guys knew better and laughed more).
Finally was George Bernard Shaw's "Candida". A excellent revival of a classic (which - of course - I had never seen), that was really good. Particular great was cutie Sam Underwood - pride of Woking UK. That is a head shot, because I can't find a great still with him from the show - but he was really good.
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It was a dated, but really good show once you fell into it. It was written in the 1890s, it was allowed to be dated.