This performance, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, uses a new libretto by Susan Kander.
His information is great; his manufactured, arch performance, directed by Jean-Michele Gregory, is not.
And Ms. Cherkas's performance, directed by Ryan Scott Whinnem, is well paced and assured.
The performance, directed by Mark Lonergan, also includes bravura tap dancing, nifty magic tricks and speed-demon hat juggling.
Face the Music, a student ensemble (ages 11 to 16) gave a knockout performance, directed by Jennifer Undercofler.
The performance, directed by Chet Walker, includes live music, and the Pillow promises surprise guest Broadway stars.
It may have been written by Shakespeare as a tragedy, but tonight's performance, directed by Tigran Gasparyan, tends to focus more on comedy.
That problem was exacerbated by this performance, directed by Lisa Brailoff, with Mimi Stern-Wolfe, the music director, ably playing the piano part.
Callow was more suited to Charles Dickens, in a plum pudding solo performance directed by Garland in Peter Ackroyd's The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2000).
There is rhythm in the 35-minute performance, directed by Jon Kinzel, and much of its quiet drama arises from something as impersonal as the use of space.
Otherwise the 80-minute performance, directed by Scott Illingworth at Urban Stages, is almost always engaging to the eye and ear.
