Darnell Taylor (8/13/2012 10:43:59 PM) I was just chillin out on MacDougal looking for some trim last Friday night . I had a fresh cut and my new Nike Lebron low fireberry joints on. lookin fly as hell stuntin. Stuntin! It was a mad humid night. The females was lookin right tho rockin barley anyting. I seen this crazy line outside on the corner of Mineatta so I went to see whats good.I asked this old dude rockin a will call vest whos playing? he said its a fringe festival. I said what? he said a Fringe festival. A who? Standby the musical is opening tonight. I said no doubt no doubt. I can get in? He was like 18 bucks. Damn! 18? he said fringe is like the sundance festival for plays. This was opening night and standby was settin it off. I was like word up. the night was young so i did it. this was the 1st show ive ever seen in my whole life. Now i dont know no jack shit about no plays. But this shit was dope!! after like 10 minutes i felt like i was just looking in on these peoples lives. live theatre is the shit! this show was hot! I dont know what show u was watching mr review man. I thought this cast was solid. They all played their positions well. U right on that little blonde chick. She killed it! she was like the Michael Jordan of that squad. yo that gay boy dancin had me dying! he reminding of me my nephew Rashawn whos mad sassy. Crazy funny and he sang wit attitude! how u not shout him out on that mr review man? He was like queen latifah in a little gay mans body. crazy funnY! i loved that dude. no homo. That white boy who played andrew also was smoooootthhhh. at time his tone was reminding me of lionel from back in the commodores days. bottom line was this play was good man. Real talk from a real OG. -DT Karen Rogers (8/12/2012 9:23:11 PM) To read this review makes me wonder if the reviewer and I attended the same show. As an avid theater goer, I have seen many "works in progress" and Standby shows a tremendous amount of potential. Your critique of the music baffled me as I thought there were many note worthy musical moments. In particular, the duet by John and Cynthia was beautiful- both musically and through the actors' performance. No credit was given for the amazing harmonies executed by the cast. In fact this review was way off base with the assessment of all the actors. I related to most of the characters and found the portrayals anything but "shallow and pedestrian."