piece of my heart

Director Denis Jones has crafted it all into a sleek package, with the kind of musically satisfying staging in which the bump of the last song immediately leads into the following scene. This helps the show pack in more music than you would think possible, and it does so in an authentic-sounding way.

I loved the fact that Jones’s period dances are performed by the small company slightly self-consciously, as though they were kids at a Miami Beach discotheque