Tom Lehrer Is Alive And Well And Has Given Away All Rights To His Music Reviews
Tom Lehrer Is Alive And Well And Has Given Away All Rights To His Music
DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended
"...The conceit of the show is that one Professor Charles Chucklenut is defending his double MFA and PhD dissertation on Lehrer’s humor in front of a remote panel of advisers from the George Santos Online University (“Fake it till you make it” being the namesake’s maxim). Playing Chucklenut is Andrew Lloyd Baughman (the accomplished producing artistic director of Landless Theatre Company), who accompanies himself nimbly on a keyboard as he sings passably a Lehrer songlist interspersed with original patter."
MD Theatre Guide- Recommended
"...But none of this really matters, and Baughman dispenses with it quickly. It's just an excuse to spend an hour hearing a talented and engaging performer sing the standouts from the Lehrer songbook, largely unrevised for modern audiences. The one hilarious exception is "Whatever Happened to Mike Pence," originally about Hubert Humphrey. (Chucklenut points out that the line about "staging a coup" is from the original.)"