The Godfadda Workout brings a new star performer to New York. Okay, he's 43 and has been a performer for many years, but he's new to us. Seth Isler is an actor, comedian and impressionist, flexible in body and character, with great charm and athleticism. He uses an amazing variety of vocal and body attitudes to capture and satirize all the major characters in the movie "The Godfather." It's not only a brilliantly performed tour-de-force stunt, it's so well produced and directed by Susan Jane Sullivan -- with props, set pieces, an almost chorus of six stagehands, and lighting -- that even though one man plays all the characters, it has the feel and dimension of a full stage production, with many people, many settings.
As Isler performs the familiar scenes, both realistically and slightly askew, he is truly funny and dead-on in his comedy impressions. And, he's magnetic, unceasingly fascinating -- an all-too-rare quality. At the end, I wanted to see him do "Godfather II" and maybe even & "III." Or anything else. What a performer!
