It warrants repeat viewings, if not for the trivia alone: a flushing toilet, the bra (white, then black), Hitch's last B&W, Vera Miles' wig, references to birds.

"You’re very comforting. I don’t know why. You’re like a very small casserole - has anyone ever told you that?’"

I can get more sexually explicit than I could when I wrote the first section of the show for NPR's 'The Next Big Thing'

Mark Anderson Phillips in the lead role is a stand-out.

The three hour show included all that we love about ZinZanni - a great 5 course meal, crowd involvement in riotous competitions and performances, spell binding acts, and even the train transformed into a Mexican themed event.

Not having drunk the blue kool-aid, I was ready to dismiss it as a techno version of Gallagher watermelon-smashing. Little did I know that this was merely one step in the BMG experience as the group slowly built the tension.

No humorless left wing hacks, the SFMT laughs at themselves, with characters like “Working Class Man,” and ups the ante by confronting the two-dimensionality of their subject material with a commedia dell'arte approach.

Christina Bianco’s channeling of everyone from Streisand to Judy Garland, Patti Lupone, Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, and Celine Dion to perform “Caberet” was spot on perfect. One suspects that even Patty Lupone would approve.

The African-American Shakespeare Company version of Julius Caesar was effective, in part because the love of the original language seemed palpable.

However critical of San Francisco Mime Troupe politics you might be, the bottom line is that they remain stellar performing artists. With impeccable timing, costuming, acting, and blocking, these guys just can’t be faulted.