2026 Audience Reviews

Company: True Men Productions
Show: Castrati: A Tale of Two
Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance

Have a Ball at Castrati!

I have been to many Fringe Festivals but I have never had as much fun as I had watching Castrati! It is funny, creative, and performed by a supremely talented cast , and features some amazing musical numbers that I am still humming a few hours later. The show mixes broad humor with so many subtle sophisticated references that it can be enjoyed on many levels. My one regret is that I missed some of the exquisitely clever lyrics because some of them went by so fast I couldn’t keep up and some were hard to hear with only 1 microphone available that the performers had to share. But no matter, there was still plenty to laugh along with and the music was so great in its own right I couldn’t help tapping along. Probably the weirdest thing was that this musical theater spoof still managed to get me to care about the protagonist and cheer for his triumph! I think in part that is due to the cast playing it straight and not letting on that it was in on the joke. A great choice on the part of the director. I’m going to see this again if I can.