Last chance! Don't miss the 'fantastic' 'Baker Street' final weekend.
iTheatre's fabulous play has it all: Sherlock Holmes, an underdog and 'laughs in the right places.'
The Baker Street Adventuress had some serious buzz at the SPAC Culinary Arts event Saturday — “Opening night last night was fantastic,” someone told me as my eyes watered from the seriously spicy Nigerian soup I was attempting to slurp. So yesterday, I jumped on the phone with iTheatre Saratoga founder Will Severin.
“Opening weekend was great,” he confirms. “I felt like we had something good, but the audience really responding to it? That’s gratifying.”
When I pushed, he opened up about the risk of presenting a new work — the show was written by Severin’s wife, Mary Jane Hansen, and is about writer and actress Edith Meiser, who introduced Sherlock Holmes to homes across American via the radio in the 1930s — but said the audience’s feedback was flawless.
“They got all the jokes, we got the laughs in the right places,” he says. “Here’s a woman who basically has been forgotten, who did something pretty cool. But people respond to that whole underdog vibe. This was not a fictional story.”
Before the 15-year-old theater company rebranded as iTheatre, it was the Creative Place, and is known for its pop-up play readings in hotspots such as Harvey’s. It also has a youth theater workshop in the summer and several productions such as the Baker Street Adventuress throughout the year.
Grab your tickets now for the play’s final weekend this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Saratoga Musical Hall at City Hall at itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com.