		Lost and Found in the Mission
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Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: Eric 5 Stars This was the best of the 4 shows I made it to this season. No sense saying too much more, since it's not showing again. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: jackie oh 5 Stars i laughed, i snickered, i cried, i wanted to get up and boogie. i was touched by its poignant melodies and loving view into some slices of the humanity pie - from lighthearted and silly to ouch/sigh. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: Matt 5 Stars "Lost and Found" could have been one of the most engaging, exciting, and inventive pieces of performance I have seen in a long while. It perfectly combines modern/exploratory/conceptual theater with organ, fully fleshed out characters and stories. It proves that in order to think outside the box, sometimes you just have to look at your feet. The show's poignancy brought me to tears (and also some great laughter). Along with the deep thoughts it inspired, "Lost and Found" took me on a complete journey of emotions. Shows like this continually inspire me and remind us all why we make art. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: lakshmi 5 Stars Loved Peter Griggs' dynamic, venue-filling presence, the sublimely understated, yet powerful performance of Rowena Richie, and, of course, the music! Genius. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: cosmo 4 Stars The show is great - scraps of found paper turned into absolute gems of musical theater. I especially loved US Breasts, you just can't go wrong with a number like that. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: monkey Mary 4 Stars Not only do we have to worry about identity theft, we now have to be careful with all those lists and other scraps of paper we have. They could end up in a fringe show, set to song and dance! Loved the enthusiasm of the performers. Entertaining. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: Annie 5 Stars I loved this show! So wild, wacky, yet deep and profound. Humanity at it's best, put to song and dance, with such an amazingly talented cast. I laughed, I cried, I was moved. Go see it!!! Play: Exotic Messages Reviewer: Dave O 4 Stars Really Funny Stuff!!! I really enjoyed OPM's fast-paced show. From the opening skit all thee way through to Fuck Olympics I laughed my ass off. The running gag tied it all together. Don't miss this one it's a hoot! Play: Lost & Found in the Mission Reviewer: Miz Rowdy 5 Stars I loved this show, it left me crying. Lost objects leave so much to the imagination, there is a whole story behind them that you may never know. How many times have we walked the streets of SF and seen lost items lying at your feet. Did someone accidentally drop this? Did they intentionally throw it away? This diverse group really pulled it off, I am very proud of them. Play: lost and found in the mission Reviewer: richard brechin 5 Stars i just loved it! it was a brilliant demonstration of talent of acting dancing and singing and also such a surprising idea to make a play out of those pieces of discarded notes bravo!!! Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: Anon 5 Stars Moving, funny, creative exploration of found notes on the streets of the Mission. The two-woman team who brought this to life are very talented. Several players stood out as well, esp. Rozelle Piledo, who's a joy to watch. Get advance tix for this one. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: Owen R 5 Stars Loved it... Interesting and funny portrait of the Mission. Singin' and Dancin', too. The performers and performances were very talented and professional. I say check it out. Play: Lost and Found Reviewer: Michael Palladino 5 Stars Loved this new version of the show. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: Mia Paschal What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. And I believe that a lot of love went into this play, from the concept to the direction and staging to the commitment of the ensemble, their joy in performing it. I enjoyed it, and by the end, I was moved by this valentine to the Mission, to a city, to life. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: ed.frauenheim@gmail.com 4 Stars It's hard to see how you can turn a shopping list for turnips and taro into a window into existential questions, but Lost and Found pulls off that feat and many others in this creative, provocative show. Full disclosure--I am married to Rowena Richie, who along with Susie Hara directed the 8-person show based on found scraps of paper in the Mission District of San Francisco. Even if I weren't biased, though, I'm certain I would be tickled by a number of the skits, like one prompted by a therapist's business card and another by a teenager's note seeking a classmate's photo. Other scenes are moving, like one in which "Gram" reads a letter to her grand-daughter that eloquently gives voice to the way an earlier generation of women had few opportunities to speak publicly. And the original music and singing is by turns entrancing, quirky and stirring. Not all the skits on the opening night (Friday) flowed to perfection. And there are aspects of the original, June, '07 performance of Lost and Found that I miss. But the current actors preserve the cast's remarkably diversity in terms of age and ethnicity. And partly because of that diversity, this is theater that manages to make the Mission District's multifariousness come alive. At the same time that it tells the "little stories" of the neighborhood, though, it speaks to larger, universal themes of loss and connection and renewal. Don't be surprised if the turnips and taro give you a figurative lump in the throat. Play: Lost and Found in the Mission Reviewer: Laura 2 Stars I was pretty excited for this performance based on the synopsis...found words from the Mission...sounds great in theory but my major complaint was that the found words were just not that interesting or unique. That and the whole interpretive dance thing in conjunction with the singing and narrative was just a bit too scattered for my tastes. I would have liked to focus more intensely on just a few really great found pieces and explored each on a deeper level than experiecing so many too fast.