Peg o' My Heart at the June Havoc Theater is a delightful, charming 100-year-old musical that has more going for it than most of today's Broadway musicals:
Hit songs - including several that still resonate today, including "I'd Rather Be Blue, Thinking Of You," "Peg O' My Heart," "They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me" and "There's a Broken Heart For Every Light on Broadway."
Original play by J. Hartley Manners, book by Karin Baker, music by Fred Fisher and lyrics by eight men including Billy Rose.
Direction and zippy choreography by James Gray, with imaginative period costumes by Cathy Parrot.
Plot: adorable down-to-Earth Irish girl (beautifully played and sung by Brittney Lee Hamilton) dropped into the household of a snobby English family which includes the terrific Broadway actress/singers Jennifer Smith and Kelly Jeanne Grant. These three women bring the production to the highest level of musical entertainment. Jeremy Benton is a fine leading man- both singing and dancing.
Producer Gwen Arment can be proud of this light-hearted, sweet, fun, romantic melodrama which raises the level of professionalism in a small theater.
