I hadn’t seen a show at the Mercury Theater in over 2 years (Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash) before seeing Bunny Bunny (bad title). I was elated to see that the Dairy Queen is still there, less than a block from the theater.

By the time you read this blog, our Uber driver, I hope, will have returned to bartending full time. He had no idea where he was going and caused me to fear for my life a couple times, not counting his moment of uncertainty about whether he should drive the car into Lake Michigan. He said that he had been an Uber driver for only two weeks and was starting it think it wasn’t for him. I couldn’t agree more.

Fortunately, we somehow arrived at the theater in time and alive, though they probably would have held the curtain for us (if late, but probably not if dead), as the theater, which isn’t that big to begin with (290 seats), was half empty.

The show was okay, amusing in spots. The woman playing Gilda was a force (Dana Tretter – upon looking her up, I realized that I saw her perform in the 2006 White Horse Theater Company production of “I Sing!”, along with a friend’s son, who won a Jefferson Award for his performance in that show). I now wish I had found the time to see “In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play” (great title), in which she performed, at the Timeline Theater the end of last year.

In addition to Dana, a lot of our attention was paid to a fake tree, which was heavily referenced in the opening dialogue, and which the crew kept moving around the stage during the frequent scene changes, making it seem like a rather stilted member of the cast (though not credited in the program).