CitybeatOnstage, the musical's business is mockery, and much of it is quite good fun. A lecturer (Ty Yadzinski) explains that some Benjamin Harrison High School students have a story to tell, a story of drugs, degradation, murder and redemption.
Evil Jack (Fang Du) and reluctant but hooked henchpersons Sally (Jordan Schramka), Mae (Jenny Guy) and Ralph (Babs Ipaye) expose clean-living Jimmy (Daniel Hines) to reefer, and he takes right to it. Sex-crazed as well as weed-hooked, he embarks on a life of crime that includes stealing a car from his girlfriend, Mary (Courtney Brown). She flirts with reefer and heads for trouble.
Whether Jesus (also Fang Du), who comes down from his cross to sing and dance in the show's best-staged and funniest sequence, can salvage Jimmy's life must remain the show's secret to reveal.
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Unlike sung-through musical plays such as See What I Want to See and Thrill Me that Know has presented so effectively, Reefer Madness is, behind its mocking attitude, an old-fashioned musical comedy. Stretches of comic dialogue alternate with solos, duets and go-for-broke production numbers, which Liz Vosmeier choreographed and Laura Franzini costumed with a tongue-in-cheek attitude matching the script.
Andrew Hungerford designed and lit properly tacky sets and amusing two-dimensional props. An airplane and a rickshaw are especially effective.