
Black clothes? Check. Black guitar? Check. Uncomplicated melodies, distinctive vocal, rock star swagger? Check, check and check. Why, oh why then, is it so hard to emulate Johnny Cash?


Director and choreographer Kelley Abbey has done well to play to unique strengths. Overall, the best singers stand out as individuals while the dancers are strong as a collective ensemble unit.

Independent Theatre Company is never one to shirk a challenge when it comes to converting literary classics to the stage.


What I liked about him then, and this still is true, is that he is a joyful comic - sweet and friendly and slightly awkward - but the type of comic you want to hang out with and you want to laugh with.
