My Favorite Year at The Adobe Theater

This musical comedy by the award-winning musical team of Ahrens and Flaherty (Lucky Stiff, Ragtime, Seussical, Once on this Island) is based on the successful movie of the same name. Benjy Stone is a first-year writer on the “King Kaiser Comedy Cavalcade” TV show (it smacks of Your Show of Shows starring Sid Caesar). The guest host for this week is Allan Swann, an over-the hill drunken, swashbuckling movie star. Benjy writes the script for a 3 Musketeers sketch, is ordered to keep Swann sober and under control, accompanies Swann to dinner at his mother’s Brooklyn apartment, and ultimately convinces Swann to reconcile with his estranged daughter. (oh – and Benjy gets the show’s female assistant as his girlfriend). Much of the comedy results from a behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the TV show. It features a hilarious script and superb music.