In Transit
"And another hundred people just got off of the train." That's from "Another Hundred People," the Stephen Sondheim tune from Company . It's my favorite song about my favorite city, and, clearly, the creators of In Transit like it, too. This theme of the subway connecting all New Yorkers, and the sheer number of people who are in transit at any one time, and the lives they live, is the focus of this original a cappella musical. What, at first, seems like a series of sketches (for the first several minutes, I thought this was going to be a themed revue), turns into a full musical, with story arcs and characters for whom we root. There's the gay couple, Trent ( Justin Guarini , Women on the Verge... ) and Steven ( Telly Leung , Godspell ), who are engaged but fearful of telling Trent's southern, conservative mother that he and Steven are more than just roommates; there's Nate ( James Snyder , If/Then ), the ex-investment banker who's tryi...