Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE LAST SMOKER IN AMERICA (Westside Theatre/Upstairs)
LIKE KISSING AN ASHTRAY The chirpy puppet-style musical is no longer a novelty but a genre; shows with lyric-dense, upbeat, simple-rhyme songs performed in rapid-fire succession are the 21st century's light opera. The Last Smoker In America may have personalized the genre a bit by including the framework of a sitcom, but Bill Russell's book [...]