Ionescopade

This 1974 curio is a series of songs, sketches and scenes based on Eugène Ionesco’s work. The idea of pairing the absurdist playwright’s satirical words and bleak worldview with the let-me-entertain-you ethos of vaudeville sounds intriguing, but this hodgepodge of hokum and headiness is about as graceful as a stampede of rhinos.—Raven Snook