Stage preview: Getting the band together for 'Pump Boys and Dinettes'

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The lives, dreams and music of the six friends in “Pump Boys and Dinettes” are familiar to Ben Klein, who, like the characters in the Tony-nominated musical, hails from North Carolina. The four Pump Boys work at a gas station across the street from the Double Cupp Diner and the Cupp sisters — aka the Dinettes — who waitress there. By night, they make music together, with the guys playing guitars, banjo, piano and bass and the ladies as the percussion section, “playing cheese graters and wooden spoons and rolling pins and napkin dispensers — anything that is part of the world they live in,” said Mr. Klein, who is directing the latest offering from CLO Cabaret.