Visiting Mr. Green
Cherry Creek Theatre:
10/5-10/28
Joey Wishnia as Mr. Green
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got back from
seeing “Visiting Mr. Green” at The Cherry Creek Theatre in the Shaver-Ramsey
Showroom. The show was held a few minutes due to a “technical difficulty.”
No one cared though.
The show is being given such an outstanding production all was forgiven and
forgotten long before the first scene was over.
This is far and away the
best direction to have been done by Pat Payne. The attention to detail, casting
and pacing of the show is impeccable. Brava!
Joey Wishnia creates
the most endearing character of the season in his work in the role of the
elderly retired dry cleaner, Mr. Green.
Cajardo Lindsey is
absolutely brilliant as Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive who
nearly hit Mr. Green as the old man wandered out into traffic. Since his
character was driving too fast and frightened Green enough that he fell down,
the judge makes Ross go weekly to the old man’s apartment and help him out as community
service.
Left to right: Cajardo Lindsey and Joey Wishnia
Both Mr. Wishnia and
Mr. Lindsey have a gift for communicating their characters’ hearts and souls with
a naturalness and a depth of feeling that places them among the very best in
our community.
The friendship that
grows out of this unfortunate incident is heart warming and deeply moving.
Both men find
themselves revealing parts of themselves that they had not intended to make
known in the course of events that transpires. These secret issues unveiled by
Mr. Green and Ross Gardiner as their relationship deepens are potent both
politically and socially in today’s world.
Jeff Baron’s recently
updated play is remarkably well written. It is heart opening in its profound and
universal embrace of all of humanity regardless of race, religion or sexual
orientation.
Richard Pegg’s scenic
design for Mr. Green’s dilapidated apartment is spot on.
There’s a fine sound
design by Luke Allen Terry
and great lighting by Brian Miller. If one might paraphrase Polonius,
costume designer Rose Mary Smith provides “apparel which doth always proclaim
the men’s” characters superbly.
This production comes
with the highest of recommendations from this reviewer’s desk.
Run
to get tickets!
Cherry Creek Theatre presents
"Visiting
Mr. Green”
October 5 – October 28
Fri/Sat
@ 7:30 p.m.; Sun @ 6:30 p.m.
Tickets $30 or $50 for 2; $23 for
Groups of 10 +
Shaver-Ramsey Showroom, 2414 East 3rd
Ave., Denver, CO 80206
303-800-6578
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