Saturday, March 10, 2007

Another Weekend of Full Houses

The Good Steno continues to impress audiences and critics alike...!

Here's a recent review written on the Los Angeles Times - Calendar Live:

Lead actor/director Paul Ben-Victor cowrote this gem with his mother Leah Kornfeld Friedman, based on her experiences as a stenographer in the NYC garment center in 1946. Ben-Victor is a crazed bundle of energy as Morty & Louis Giambalvo manages to make dirty-old-man Jack a likeable kind of guy. Talented dancer Nick Drago makes a great Gene Kelly, a sultry trio of actresses (Erin Cummings, Johanna Torell, and Veronica Alicino) portray models, a mother, and a gypsy, and Andrew Hawkes skillfully morphs into three very different roles. The best reason to see The Good Steno is discovery Noelle Arzillo as Gloria (think a blonde Jewish New Yawk Mary Tyler Moore). On stage the entire play (or so it seemed), Arzillo manages to be both naive and knowing, cuddly cute and fierce as a tigress. Her "I ain't down yet" spunk is a delight to watch.