So begins Jonathan Tolins' utterlycharming and often whacky one-man show that opened Wednesday at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater starring a superb Michael Urie.
His nickname, by the way, is 'Cowboy', he wears a proper Stetson and he talks like all British people imagine Americans do, in a kind of honeyed drawl that's utterlycharming.
And the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey revived Arthur Wing Pinero's all-but-forgotten "Trelawny of the 'Wells, '" an 1898 backstage comedy that turned out to be both fresh and utterlycharming.