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One persons passion is anothers poison; opinions are countless as grains of sand.
You will leave wanting to eat chicken.
You will leaveneedingto eat biscuits.
The much-missed Reverend Bernard couldnt really prepare it well himself, a fact that hints at other flaws.
Going toChicken & Biscuitsdoes feel like being fed by loving but overweening relatives.
At the shows climax, Reginald delivers a simultaneously stirring and silly eulogy in Redemption Cadence.
We fix our eyes not on what isseen, but on what isunseen!
cries Reginald, hitting the finalns in those words as if hes bouncing them off a wall.
Broadway doesnt usually (ever?)
Lyons and director Zhailon Levingston are best when things are at their tartest.
The melodramatic machinations rely on music, just as the old melodramas did.
Chicken & Biscuitswill not serve every hunger.
Yet just because the scripts jokey sections are its fiercest doesnt mean Lyons isnt taking some things seriously.
Underneath all the mayhem and rollicking, theres acknowledgment of real pain.
Kenny, for instance, has been badly treated and has no choice but to forgive.
Where is LaTrices father?
Where is Simones fiance?
Chicken & Biscuitsis at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
