Starlight Musical Theatre and Director Brian Wells open their 56^th season under the stars with a cast of remarkable stars with fantastic voices and strong comedy. The headliner is former Days of Our Lives star Kevin Spirtas who lives up to his billing as the charismatic but befuddled Robert. He is joined by his hilarious pot-smoking friends David (Spencer Moses) and Jenny (Colleen Kollar), his divorcing friends Susan (Jennifer Mandala) and Peter (David Grant) whom he is surprised to discover are both a little interested in him, the vindictive couple downstairs Sarah (Liz Terrel) and Harry (Paul James Kruse) who torment each other with their addictions to food and alcohol but love each other anyway, his elderly middle-aged friends Larry and Joanne (who wants to have an affair with him), and the hysterical odd couple of Amy (Bets Malone) and Paul (Randall Dodge).

With her amusing voice that can nimbly sing a million words a second and her great knack for comedy, Bets Malone nails one of the best scenes as the very reluctant bride to her painfully happy and loving husband who likes to leave little notes around the house that read, “Whoever is reading this note, I love you!” with hubby Randall Dodge having no trouble making a fool for himself for the woman he adores. As the somewhat jaded, middle-aged Joanne, Linda Libby delivers an incredible and touching solo of The Ladies Who Lunch. And the whole cast opens the second act with the rousing song-and-dance number Side By Side.

While Robert observes and takes relationship advice from his crazy group of married friends, he is not quite as lonely as his married friends imagine, as he tests the waters with three completely different and extraordinarily beautiful single women. There’s Jennifer Shelton as Kathy, the down-to-earth, relatively normal former girlfriend whom he passed up the chance to marry, a highly amusing “dumb blonde”-type stewardess (Jessica Wheeler), and the exuberant, intelligent, free-thinking, Marta (played by Misty Cotton, which, according to her bio, truly is her real name!) who lends her strong and lovely voice to Another Hundred People.

With such an exciting single life and such strife among his married friends, will 35-year-old Robert ever decide to tie that knot? Does married life, even an imperfect married life, offer something that he can’t get from dating all these gorgeous women? Will he figure it all out on his 35^th birthday?

Starlight’s impressive production includes an equally impressive three-story set (Victoria Petrovich) which houses the many residences of Robert and his married friends. The planes flying over the Starlight Bowl, which are sometimes distracting, actually timed themselves to increase the amusement in this one, giving poor Robert more time to pause when one of his dates asks, “Do you want to get married?” and another forced pause right after the line, “And no sounds came…”