fortysomething: “Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical,” at the Circa ’21
Dinner Playhouse through November 7 Print Theatre - Reviews
Written by Mike Schulz    Monday, 07 September 2009 06:00  Paul
Gregory Nelson, Tom Walljasper, and Brad Hauskins in Mid-Life!
The Crisis MusicalThe Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse's latest is
Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical, and it's pretty much exactly what
you'd expect given the title and exclamation point in the title:
a cheeky, kind of forced, kind of obvious song-and-dance revue
that pokes gentle fun at memory and hair loss, adulterous urges,
prostate exams, and other "wacky" perils of aging.  As you also
might have expected, the show hasn't been designed for 40- and
50-year olds so much as 60-, 70-, and 80-year-olds who want to
remember life as a 40- or 50-year-old. Despite gags involving
Botox and STDs, Mid-Life! authors Bob and Jim Walton don't offer
fresh comic insight for 21st-Century audiences, opting instead
for the same jokey clichés on ticking biological clocks,
menopause, and me