Some nice quotes from Daniel Faigin of California Highways - a blogger, really, but aren't most reviewers that these days. Also, he states that he doesn't consider himself a critic, but he sees lots of LA theater and has written about it for years - he's been a fan of my shows.
"The leads of the show are outstanding, most notably Sydney DeMaria as Alice Van Guilder. She was the greatest surprise of the show: A wonderful singer, strong in movement, and with outstanding comic chops ... (Reusch) had a very pleasant and strong singing voice, and captured the naivete of his character well. He also had strong comic timing ... The show was directed by Bruce Kimmel, who is an expert at this sort of thing. He has a lot of fun with these shows (I still remember The Brain from Planet X many many years ago at the Chance, his productions of L.A. Now and Then and Levi at LACC, and his recent 70 Girls 70 at GRT), and it comes through in the direction ... this production of Drat! The Cat! is quite fun, and it is a chance to see a rarely produced gem. If you get the chance, visit GRT to see Drat! The Cat! and learn what Broadway missed thanks to a newspaper strike. Someone should encourage Encores to see this: it could fit will with the shows they do. Further, I encourage GRT to keep doing shows like this: Revisiting shows that either failed or missed originally, or have been forgotten. Everyone seems to revive the same shows (why, oh why, is The Sound of Music on tour yet again). It’s nice to see something that we haven’t seen in ages."
