TomFoolery at Eureka Theatre, July 23, 2015

Landmark Musical Theatre presents TomFoolery
A Musical Revue based on lots of silly words and far too music by Tom Lehrer
2015-07-23
Eureka Theatre
215 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA 94111
7:00 PM, Thursday, July 23, 2015

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[7:07 PM lights down, announcements]

1. [7:11 PM] [pre-recorded Introduction: Stephen Sondheim and Tom Lehrer]
2. [7:13 PM] Be Prepared
3. [7:18 PM] Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
4. [7:22 PM] I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
5. [7:25 PM] My Home Town
6. [7:28 PM] Pollution
7. [7:30 PM] Bright College Days
8. [7:33 PM] Fight Fiercely, Harvard
9. [7:35 PM] The Folk Song Army
10. [7:39 PM] She’s My Girl
11. [7:42 PM] When You Are Old and Gray
12. [7:47 PM] In Old Mexico
13. [7:53 PM] The Elements
14. [7:57 PM] The Elements (beatbox version)
15. [7:58 PM] The Elements (speed rap version)
16. [8:02 PM] Who’s Next?
17. [8:04 PM] I Got It From Agnes
18. [8:07 PM] National Brotherhood Week
    [set ends 8:09 PM]

1. [8:20 PM] Send the Marines
2. [8:25 PM] So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
3. [8:28 PM] A Christmas Carol
4. [8:30 PM] Hanukkah in Santa Monica
5. [8:33 PM] The Irish Ballad
6. [8:37 PM] Smut
7. [8:45 PM] New Math
8. [8:51 PM] Silent E
9. [8:55 PM] George Murphy
10. [8:58 PM] I Hold Your Hand In Mine
11. [9:01 PM] The Masochism Tango
12. [9:04 PM] Oedipus Rex
13. [9:08 PM] The Vatican Rag
14. [9:12 PM] We Will All Go Together When We Go
    [set ends 9:15 PM, group bow, applause]
     
    Encore
15. [9:16 PM] That's Mathematics
    [show ends 9:21 PM; additional bows, then off by 9:23 PM]

• Scott Alexander Ayres: vox;
• David Cori: vox;
• Samantha Cori: vox;
• Kimberly Krol: vox;
• Jason Leher: alto saxophone, flute;
• Keith Leung: bassoon, piccolo;
• Jon Rosen: piano;
• Peter Woolhouse: vox.

• Robin Fisher: musical arrangements;
• Richard Gutierrez: stage manager;
• Kimberly Krol: choreography;
• Amanda Ku: musical director;
• Tom Lehrer: music and lyrics;
• Cameron Mackintosh: writer, original producer (1980);
• Douglas Marshall: producer;
• Robin Ray: writer;
• Jon Rosen: director;
• Chris Walker: musical arrangements.

A labor of love by all involved, TomFoolery was a fun way to spend an evening, despite any minor quibbles. The songs are certainly fun to listen to, if starting to get a little bit stale here and there, but that's to be expected, given that cultural satire is necessarily attached to the time and place of its creation. And while this was certainly a low budget production, the five primary singer performers were uniformly excellent in their roles. Ting and Joanne even got pulled onto stage to enjoy some baby brother soup during the Irish Ballad – part of the peril one assumes when sitting in the front row! Highly recommended!

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