Review: Stephen Temperley’s ‘Souvenir’ is sweet and slick at Adrienne
Souvenir, Stephen Temperley’s memory play about the 12-year relationship between 1940s society warbler Florence Foster Jenkins (more on that warbling in a moment) and her stalwart piano accompanist Cosme McMoon, gets evergreener every year. Its Broadway run was brief — though not quite as brief as Jenkins’ real-life, one-night-only Carnegie Hall sellout — but Souvenir still thrives in the regi…