british guys singing

So I went to another Summer Play Festival play last friday and what a different tone it was from the first play, Tender! This play, Departure Lounge, was a frolicking dramedy about four UK guys in a Spanish airport waiting to fly back to London the summer after they ended school and before going to university. It was amazingly fun- I mean, four cute guys with delicious accents singing and dancing! It was quite light hearted and the guys really shined during their musical numbers. They had great voices and could really rock the small theater space. The writing was good enough; some sentimentality and everything wrapped up a little too easily, but it did the job of stringing all the songs together in a coherent whole.

It was interesting to see the range of different type of plays at the SPF. Tender was so wordy, intellectual, all about how to manipulate writing and the audience. Departure Lounge was more Broadway (actually very akin to Altar Boyz, an off Bway play that has run for years about a faux Christian boy band). I enjoyed both plays equally, but the BF got much more of a kick out of Departure Lounge. And he didn't fall asleep, so there you go.