Review; 'Gracie' Captures the Getting-High Life of '70s; Boulevard's Drug-Tinged Show Is Amusing, If Dated, Reunion
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › January 20, 2008
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The first order of business here is to clear up some confusion. The show "Say Goodnight, Gracie" that the Boulevard Ensemble is currently producing in Bay View is not the biographical drama of beloved comedian Gracie Allen that played 364 performances on Broadway in 2002.
The Boulevard has revived a 30-year-old comedy of the same title that is an unintended cultural artifact rather than a paean to a cultural icon. Instead of one dizzy blond, this "Gracie," written by Ralph Pape, features five characters dizzy from the marijuana they are smoking in preparation for attending a high school reunion. In fact, their weedy intoxication causes them to never leave the low- rent apartment in which they gather.See the full content of this document
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Review; 'Gracie' Captures the Getting-High Life of '70s; Boulevard's Drug-Tinged Show Is Amusing, If Dated, Reunion
Pape's "Gracie," which had a lengthy off-Broadway run in 1978, reflects its decade as if we were v...
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