Re-imagine ... with rubber chicken


Dexter Brigham, executive artistic director for Festival 56, bounded onstage to introduce the first show of Festival 56’s 2009 summer run and told the audience that the theme of the summer is “Re-imagine ... ” While the rest of the season promises re-imagined approaches to such theater classics as “The Wizard of Oz” and “The Sound of Music,” most audience members (myself included) may not have encountered Jack Sharkey’s farcical comedy “Who’s on First?” before now. I can’t imagine a better way of introducing the idea of new twists on what might be familiar plotlines.