“Reefer Madness: The Musical” is no more an endorsement for marijuana than “Cannibal! The Musical” is an encouragement for eating thy neighbor.
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Who would remember Alexandre Etienne Choron without Choron sauce? Caesar Cardini without the Caesar salad? And even Ettore Boiardi, without all of that Chef Boyardee stuff?
Best Western Lighthouse Inn snack bar, 110 Ville Drive, Boulder City, received 18 demerits Sept. 10. Violations included raw eggs stored over ready-to-eat foods. GRADE: B
Wine: Vina Bisquertt Casa La Joya Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
While it’s not quite here yet, it surely won’t be long before a few favorite dishes identified mostly with Indian cuisine — tandoori chicken, certainly, and maybe the bread called naan — fully break out into the American restaurant mainstream.
“Working” is a plotless musical based on Studs Terkel’s 1974 paean to the common man, and if there’s one thing it needs as much as first-rate singing voices, it’s characters. The script is populated with a cross section of types that represent America’s labor force. Unless we believe we’re hearing that labor force singing, then the show has no substance.