"It may be the funniest thing on a Seattle stage this year... I don't recall the last time I left a theater with a face that ached from laughing way too much." ––Paul Constant 9/10/2008 "Strawberry Theatre Workshop again makes mounting a hit look easy by simply adhering to a few immutable fundamentals: an inspired choice of material, production values that make each quarter spent look like a dollar on stage, and peerless casting instinct... [Troy] Fischnaller's Doug is giddily foul-mouthed with self-congratulation, and [MJ] Sieber has a twinkle in his eye even as he works himself into a sweaty state of breathless zeal. Both performers toil feverishly to keep director Greg Carter's pace for the show—a five-shot-espresso-with-a-Red-Bull-chaser momentum from start to finish." ––Kevin Phinney 9/10/2008 "The satire by Anthony King and Scott Brown (and ably directed here by Greg Carter) is certainly silly fun, but it also offers a knowing deconstruction of the modern musical... MJ Sieber is delightfully eager and needy as Bud, a pudge in sweater vest and glasses who does his little happy dance during favored scenes. Troy Fischnaller is the lower-key Doug, an Abbott to Bud's Costello, a straight man who, it turns out, is not straight." ––Gianni Truzzi 9/9/2008 "[Troy] Fischnaller and [MJ] Sieber play off each other with ease and symmetry. But the more fumbly they are, the funnier. They work so hard that sweat pours and towels must be frequently flashed... Ultimately, watching them screw up is a barrel of laughs and guffaws and titters and big grins." ––Miryam Gordon 9/12/2008 "[MJ] Sieber and [Troy] Fischnaller are so nebbishly lovable, from their ambitious ego-stroking to their codependent creative spats, you leave wanting them to pitch you their next terrible musical, too. There's something intrinsically American about the Broadway musical--beyond the location of course. Even wanting to put one on is a flowering of rosy optimism, and writers Anthony King and Scott Brown display a touching fondness for Doug and Bud (and all of us) who live one foot in a brighter future, who 'eat dreams.'" ––Michael van Baker 9/8/2008 "[Troy] Fischnaller and [MJ] Sieber work even harder to keep us amused than Bud and Doug, too, with all that dashing about, pleading for cash and singing show tunes that take off on various Broadway musicals. Also on hand is the truly amusing pianist-actor Don Darryl Rivera, who simmers throughout with deadpan disdain." ––Misha Berson 9/12/2008