Sweet Charity – Thursday, July 5, 2007

Sweet Charity’s tuneful score (by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields) features such hits as "Hey, Big Spender," "There’s Gotta Be Something Better Than This" and “If My Friends Could See Me Now." And the show features a hilarious book by none other than Neil Simon. Based on the Fellini film Nights of Cabiria, the musical tells the story of Charity Hope Valentine, a taxi dancer with a heart of gold but a will of tin foil. Though she dreams of meeting the right man and settling down, she keeps lavishing her affections on losers. Her luck starts to change when she meets a suave Italian movie star, but things really start to look rosy when she runs into a nebbishy but sweet guy in a night-school elevator. Could this finally be her Prince (more or less) Charming?

This is our last tickets on this season of TUT’s shows. Donna and I are looking forward to the next season that will start this fall.