Performing brilliantly is walking a razor's edge. One step to the right it's comedic, or to the left and it's tragic. Peter Chelsem's Funny Bones pits comedy against tragedy, forming that razor's edge for the astounding assembled cast to walk. It has its standard plot, Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) isn't funny, despite having a famously funny father (Jerry Lewis). He runs away to Blackpool where he lived until he was six and remembered that the sun shone everyday. There, he finds the secrets of his past. There ends the plot. Chelsem then weaves incredible magic through and around the plot with the secretive and brilliant Jack (Lee Evans) who gave up living his life to save his life; his aged uncles, The Parker Brothers (George Carl and Freddie Davies), brilliant vaudevillians in their time; and his mother Katie Parker (Leslie Caron) who links the three to reality. They have their rituals such as applauding for themselves when putting on powder. Add to these characters an ancient oriental powder for immortality. All elements twine together when all five performers (include Tommy Fawkes) give a performance of a life time.
Review of Funny Bones
