Gym Class Heroes' Never Ending Summer
This is one of those shows where you’re probably a lot better off arriving early than staying late
Jay Allen Sanford 10 a.m., April 19
The star of the Old Globe's musical is the new Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre. Based on its inaugural show (state-of-the-art lighting, voms and other entrances, a rounded architectural look), it looks to become the Cassius Carter of the 21st Century. The 1968 musical, however, is as dated as the theater is new: fifty years of marriage in which - except for an infidelity that gets swept under the rug - nice things happen to nice people (and when troubles threaten, the pair recovers, again and again, with a near-miraculous sense of due north). Patrick Page and wife Paige Davis charm as Michael and Agnes, who evolve from virginal newlyweds to septuagenarians in two and a half hours. Director Richard Jay-Alexander and choreographer James Kinney faced a strategic dilemma. I Do! I Do! demands the feel of a dance throughout - on a small stage dominated by a four-post bed. Page and Davis move around the tight space as if the obstacles didn't exist.
1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101
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