Before a Live Studio Audience: Adapting 'I Love Lucy' Episodes for the Stage
The touring production of "I Love Lucy Live on Stage" is, on one hand, exactly what it promises to be: a live staging of two full episodes of the groundbreaking television sitcom. On the other hand, it's also an exercise in nostalgia-fueled meta-viewing"the audience plays the roles of members of a live studio audience in 1952 at Desilu Playhouse, where "I Love Lucy" filmed.