“Death, Let Me Do My Show” runs through September 30 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village.
at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Bloom is probably best known as the co-creator of the television series, a musical comedy with some semi-autobiographical elements, including ones pertaining to Bloom’s own mental health struggles.
Using comedy as a means of processing pain and struggle is nothing new for Bloom, who wrote songs on her television show with titles like “Anti-Depressants Are So Not A Big Deal,” but the pandemic ushered in a new chapter for her.
Quickly, it becomes clear that Death won’t stop nagging her until she talks about him. She tries to appease him with stories about the fraudulent death of her dog , but eventually she is intimidated into sharing the real meat of her grief: the fear of losing her newborn daughter, who spent several days in the NICU because of fluid in her lungs, and the loss of her close friend.after the show about the process of putting the show together without her writing partner.
Much of the show is less about comedy than pure storytelling, as she unpacks some of the most difficult moments in her life. Yet in classic Bloom fashion, she breaks up these gloomy monologues with musical interludes, each one reminding the audience that we are allowed—and are, in fact, supposed to—laugh.
In less than 90 minutes, Bloom manages to grapple with a universal question that the pandemic amplified: “How do I acknowledge death but continue to live?” If she hasn’t quite found the answer, she’s at least managed to make us all smile while trying.runs through September 30 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village.Sign Up Now
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