Parking Spot: The Musical!
Parking Spot: The Musical! takes a wonderfully petty premise - five Jersey City neighbours scheming over one open parking space - and mines it for a lot of laughs. From an ode to ‘cone law’ to satirical pokes at self-help culture and ‘doing the work’, the cast have good chemistry even when the plot gets silly. And in traversing such topics as vehicular sabotage and psychotic sock puppets, things gets very silly indeed.
Some of the more American-centric gags didn’t land with the Scottish/international audience, but the broader threads (marriage, friendship, the insufferability of trying to park in a modern city) are things most can relate to, and this is a fun little show filled with quirky characters, catchy original music and dayglo road-safe fabrics.
★★★.5
