“Ernest Shackleton Loves Me” review: Ernest Shackleton was an adventurer, polar explorer and a man who survived in the Antarctic by drifting on ice floes while eating penguins and dogs.
In the new two-character musical at Porchlight Music Theatre, Shackleton appears from inside a refrigerator inside the apartment of a single Brooklyn mom.
As wacky as that sounds — and “Ernest Shackleton Loves Me” is one wacky-backy musical — it’s not the main problem here.
And if that’s not bizarre enough, Mueller has a second character to play: Kat’s loser boyfriend and baby daddy, a “Rock of Ages” refugee and man-child who is part of a Journey cover band. Precisely how someone like Kat could possibly be with such a loser guy never is explained. It’s all just a weird device.I like many of book writer Joe DiPietro’s populist shows, but the combination of this material and the Porchlight staging is, frankly, just not for me.
I will say this, though: Carlson has a formidable assignment, singing a huge amount of Brendan Milburn’s music and Val Vigoda’s lyrics for almost all of the available 90 minutes, not to mention manipulating all the technical elements on which the show, at least initially, depends. She’s game, appealing and all-in with this nonsense: totally admirable work in each and every way.Where: Porchlight Music Theatre at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St.
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