Nina Metz

There is a particular kind of woman in her twenties or thirties indigenous to a metropolis like our own: the city girl. She's a transplant from small town/suburban America who moves to the big city and becomes a modern day version of Mary Tyler Moore, the coquette with attitude and independence. In her breezily comedic, loosely autobiographical musical "City Girl!", Noelle Krimm squarely faces this stereotype, and gives it a serious self-referential tweaking that is sometimes quite funny, sometimes just plain whiney. The show itself grew from a single song, "City Girl," which Krimm first wrote and performed as a two-minute play in the Neo-Futurists' long-running series, "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind." In its full-length extended form "City Girl" is a bit lumpy, though you'll find yourself laughing much of the time. Krimm and composer Jonathan Mastro's contribution to the musical canon of show biz includes the requisite country/western break-up song, the I'm-whoring-this-show-out product placement song, and the best piece of the night, the Chicago-is-a-grid song, a hilarious put-down to anyone who has ever uttered that phrase when giving directions to someone new in town. With spare but highly detailed two-dimensional foam board sets by John Randle.

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