Play: Organic Boxed Chicken Stock
Reviewer: Mia Paschal
5 Stars
Tall, svelte, engaging, and possessing an absolutely beautiful voice, Amy
Tobin commands the stage, pure and simple. But it's rare to see a Fringe
performer with so much relaxed confidence that it feels as if you're in
the audience of her weekly show. And this show is so strikingly and fearlessly
her own, with an easy, comfortable rhythm of which she was always in control,
that I found it refreshing and very enjoyable.
Play: Organic Boxed Chicken Stock
Reviewer: Devra Aarons
5 Stars
Amy Tobin's insights are powerful and thought-provoking. Not only that,
her dynamic vocals take you to new heights. For those who love "cabaret"-style
work, this is not to be missed!
Play: Organic Boxed Chicken Stock
Reviewer: Craig Kensek
2 Stars
You Cant Have Chicken Stock If The Eggs Havent Hatched
I wont go as far as saying this production laid an egg. However,
Organic Boxed Chick Stock production still seemed to be in the
embryonic stage. The performer has a haunting voice when shes singing.
However, when she wasnt singing, she was looking at (reading from?)
her crib sheets. Humorous riff on Pluto. Nice discussion on dinosaurs. Didnt
need to know about tampons. Perhaps every show differs depending on the
degree of audience participation.
If youre good at zoning in and out and enjoy female vocalists,
youll enjoy the singing. Zone out and daydream about Pluto and pre-historic
times during the spoken parts of the performance. Perhaps by the end of
the festival the crib sheets will be gone. I didnt notice the actors
during Avenue Q I didnt notice the actors during Lion
King. I couldnt quite make the cheat sheets go away, though,
during Organic Boxed Chicken Stock
Play: Organic Boxed Chicken Stock
Reviewer: yawza
3 Stars
I'm giving this show the benefit of the doubt in that it might indeed be
far better if she had an audience more to her liking. We seemed to ongoingly
disappoint her , a shitck that grows wearisome fairly quickly. This is an
obviously talented lady , at least as far as her singing and presence go,
but the show seemed to be based on some vague shitck where we would interact
with her or something. It was never really clear to me what it was she wanted
to do. When you have a performer ask at the beginning ,"Why did you
come here this evening?" , you'd hope that she'd know that most of
us wanted to be entertained. But , who knows? Given the right audience ,
and the right mood and the right interaction all around , this could possibly
be very entertaining. But , I'm afraid she only gave us 2 stars as an audience.
Our bad , I suppose. |