It's The Housewives!

Wildly wacky and musically delightful, It’s The Housewives! returns to the Whitefire Theater in Hollywood for a repeat of their earlier success. For a sit-back evening of fun and great songs, this is a sort of  “housewives”  Dream Girls. Three friends get together for a PTA talent show and become a great  musical sensation, have a falling out, and then reunite for a great finale.

Good music strung on a thin plotline: A plumber comes to fix a sink and learns that the woman who hired him is one of these famous “Housewives.” He asks to hear the “true story” of their breakup.  As she tells the story, The Housewives get into their costumes, get their mikes, and…rock and roll! And do they sing! Great lyrics, bouncy tunes, all cleverly built around the life of the kitchen world. Songs like: “Be My  Baby Sitter,” “Spotless Love,” and a vacuum cleaner song called “It Sucks.” Quite mad and audience-pleasing.

I’m reminded of a long-running musical, Bark, where all the songs concerned the world of dogs.  This is a housewife’s mad fantasy and an evening of musical fun.

Back in ’82, the author Hope Juber created the actual The Housewives which played in rock and comedy clubs for about 12 years.  They would show up with their props: a ironing board and a vacuum cleaner.  Now their group comes to the stage and, housewife or not, have a taste of  “I’ve Been Defrosting All Day” and the sad tale of a “Football Widow.”

Hope partners with her composer husband Laurence Juber for tunes, lyric direction, and staging.

The rocking trio, Jayme Lake, Corinne Dekker, and Jamey Hood are first-rate.

An evening of good crazy fun, terrific lyrics…slightness of plot aside, an audience-pleaser.

At the Whitefire in Sherman Oaks, California until March 29th.