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5f / Musical/ Unit Set Unlike most of the stage works about
Gertrude and Alice, 27 Rue de Fleurus is told from Alice's point of
view. Gertrude grows tired of Alice's lack of panache for telling
her perspective of their story and attempts to hijack the play as
only the author of such lines as "sugar is not a vegetable" can.
But Alice has secrets to share with the audience that silence the
famously verbose Gertrude. This celebrated couple confronts each
other about love, marriage, jealousy, genius and a few other
delicious topics while Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mabel
Dodge, Sylvia Beach and even Jean Harlow drop by for a visit. "27
Rue de Fleurus gets its sweetness from a genuine love of its
subject, the "marriage" of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. The
music is well handled by John Bell; and the all-female cast sings
excellently." - Village Voice "What we have here is a love story,
fraught with jealousy and passion like others, but most of all, it
celebrates the incredible bond between two women who decided to
share their lives, even during a time when it was relatively
unheard of. That alone makes 27 Rue de Fleurus worth an evening of
your time." - GO Magazine "Ms. Rosenblat, who, seated, resembles
portraits of Stein, plays Gertrude as a commanding bully. And Ms.
Stern's Alice is a bright, attractive creature. ("Everyone is
entitled to a bit of fantasy," she says.) They're strong, plausible
performances." - NY Times "Credit Ted Sod and Lisa Koch, writers of
27 Rue de Fleurus, with the provocative notion of fashioning a
revisionist musical from Alice B. Toklas' corrective version of her
life with literary giant Gertrude Stein. Name-dropping opening
number "Salon (Let's Talk)" sets the smart tone for the musical's
mise en scene -- the Parisian apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus where
Gertrude (Barbara Rosenblat) and her companion Alice (Cheryl Stern)
preside over a fashionable literary salon that attracts artists and
writers of international renown, as well as the occasional American
feminist and Hollywood movie star. It's an inviting scene, to be
sure." - Variety
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