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.

In 'Undisputed Truth', Mike Tyson tells us he doesn't want to fade away. That his legacy matters to him. But he had burned too many bridges, beaten up too many people (Mitch!), kicked his way to the front of too many Burger King lines to earn even a smidgen of a break.

The second movement begins as a study in irony. This ländler was most certainly never danced by Maria and Captain Von Trapp.

Rod Gnapp, as so many already know around the San Francisco Bay Area, is the man. His performance here is #epic.