

The performers, directed with good humor and reasonable efficiency by Christopher Ashley, are mostly winning, particularly Howard’s exuberant Tammy and Rema Webb’s surly proprietress Marley. Coincidentally, another volcano drives the plot of SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, a few blocks away.) So Tully swings over to the mainland to win that some kind of scientist back. (Of course a volcano blows, Buffett has a song called Volcano. Booked into Margaritaville on a bachelorette trip for her friend Tammy (Lisa Howard), Rachel is ready for a week of sun, sand and collecting soil samples from the nearby volcano.īefore you can say Son of a Son of a Sailor – OK, right after – Rachel has abandoned ecology for Tully’s bed.


She is, in the articulate words of one young man, “some kind of scientist or something”. (Walt Spangler designed the pleasantly schlocky palm frond sets.) Tully spends his nights trying to keep the tourists dancing and his days romancing whichever cutie is booked on the next flight out.īut then Rachel (Alison Luff) arrives. Tully Mars (the name is borrowed from the hero of Buffett’s 2004 novel) is the paid entertainment at a rundown resort on an unnamed island.
