Reviewed by Tony Annicone

The world has been waiting thousands of years for this musical about Aesop and his friends, but fortunately it has taken only 86 years for a World Premiere to come to Bill Hanney’s Theatre by the Sea. The first show of this historic theatre’s 86th season is “Love and Other Fables” written by John McMahon and Jay Jeffries. This comic musical which is bawdy and burlesque-like is set in 600 B.C. on the island of Samos in Greece. Aesop who later in life becomes a famous writer, is still a slave in this show. He yearns to become famous, win the girl of his dreams (who doesn’t find him attractive), outwit the King of Egypt to obtain his freedom by solving three conundrums and become renowned for his spinning of his stories.

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