Who would've bet that a musical, by turns wacky and heartfelt, guided by a suicidal narrator struggling with his sanity"himself a metafictional send-up of anachronistic boys' detective fiction"populated by cartoon characters and plotted as an unsolved murder mystery while actually a poignant survivors' tale of healing, would work? Signature Theatre took the bet and it [...]
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:35AM on September 13, 2011