'JAMMIN' WITH POPS'
SOMEWHAT recommended
When: Through Jan. 4
Where: Apple Tree Theatre, 595 Elm Pl., Highland Park
Tickets: $27-$38
Call: (847) 432-4335
Take a pair of gifted Chicago performers who can conjure thespirit and musical style of two even more prodigiously gifted andlegendary performers, and let them give voice to more than two dozenof the finest standards in the American popular songbook.
Then saddle them with an exceedingly lame script that comes veryclose to undermining the talent at hand.
That just about sums up the formula at work in Barry Harman's"Jammin' With Pops," the little musical that opened Monday night …
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