Review: Vis-á-Vis Society: We are you - A Statistical Musical
Posted in Theatre on April 7th, 2007 by Eric Franklin
Do yourself a favor and grab tickets for you and a friend to go check out this show at the Northwest Film Forum. It’s only playing this weekend so you’ve got to go tonight or tomorrow. You get “The Puget News guarantee” that you’ll leave with a warm fuzzy feeling.
The show is spearheaded by Drs. Ink and Owning (Rachel Kessler and Sierra Nelson of the Typing Explosion), two scientists exploring the collective answers to scientific questionnaires the audience has filled out on their way in to the theatre. Through the use of music, dance, film, sweets, and live science, the doctors instruct and celebrate our most intimate foibles. While the show had many rough elements, record players being bumped, missing data for one of the demonstrations, and the continuous movement of the overhead projectors, the whimsy and bubbly personalities of the cast more than make up for any temporary awkwardness. The show is disarmingly human and that’s the whole point.
I really don’t want to give away all the pleasant bits in the show, just know that you’ll be doing vocalizations and watching man-dancers. Steel yourself.
Oh, and Rachel, a bunch of us who went out drinking afterwards really wanted to hear you belt out one of those tunes. You’ve got a beautiful and strong voice. Turn it loose!