Kathryn McGarr: Ordinary Days: A New Yorker's Musical (and for $20)

If you wish your life in New York were a musical comedy (whatever; I do), Ordinary Days -- an operetta-style show now playing at the Roundabout Underground's Black Box Theatre -- allows you to experience that dream vicariously through its four characters, without getting carted off to the loony bin. They break into song so you don't have to. Deb, Claire, Jason and Warren are all 20-to-30-somethings living in the city. Warren cat-sits for an unknown, imprisoned street artist; Deb is a neurotic grad student; and Jason has just moved in with his girlfriend of one year Claire, who's skeptical about their future and holding onto her past. Written by Adam Gwon and directed by Marc Bruni, the show, whose title song will be stuck in your head as you leave the theater, is a breezy 80-or-so minutes with no intermission. (Tip: Use the facilities immediately before curtain. But save your seat first. It's general admission and, though all seats are good in this tiny venue, some that I wasn't sitting in ... (link)