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Irving Berlin & Us

Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:51am
Theater: ‘I Love a Piano’
By
Marsden Epworth
compass@lakevillejournal.com
Karla Shook in “I Love a Piano;” Photo contributed

We admire Irving Berlin as a patriot, a booster of American style and wit, and as the writer of our most soaring anthem, “God Bless America.”

But the great music and songwriter saw our subversive side too. And we get a whiff of that in TriArts founders Michael Berkeley and Ray Roderick’s “I Love a Piano,” as three couples dance and sing their way through five decades marked by war, economic catastrophe and head-spinning change.

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