Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Please, please, let it be good. And let it be short. Two hours is fine, but three is just too long.”
This is one of the first lines of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” met by the great laughter of an audience that had been thinking somewhere along those lines.
“The Drowsy Chaperone” began with a pitch black theater and a monologue. A young man talked about the experience of being in the theater while some members of the audience (myself included) wondered whether the utter darkness was intentional, or if there was some error. But then the speaker mentioned waiting for that moment when the lights in a theater finally came on, and the lights flicked on.
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