CRAZY SWEET DREAMS
ANGEL FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Mostly autobiographical, Crazy Sweet Dreams is named after two of Patsy Cline’s biggest hits. In the first of its two parallel stories Anderson is just out of college and full of youthful optimism, driving from Chicago to Dallas, Pennsylvania, to perform in her first professional show, which turns out to be a grossly inferior Merchant of Venice. In the second story, she flies to London after serendipitously arranging to be interviewed by film director Mike Leigh, an interview she bungles miserably.
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Occasionally a piece of theater comes along that leaves me truly dumbfounded. Chaos & Cacophony Productions’ Angel Food for Thought is one of them. This one-woman musical about urban angst is performed by an actress, Rachel Yeck, who can’t sing. I don’t mean that she has an unconventional voice, I mean she can’t carry a tune.
