Country music gets a cure of youth in "lucky".

Willard Beckham charm Nashville new music "lucky" is loaded with flare more that one could generally associated with country music.

Do not be fooled by decorated all, fluttering cowboys and tap-dancing Indians. This flamboyant, comical show is a visual feast and it is somewhat bogged by goofy humor, but it backs up its glitter and rigging the with attributes essential to any good music - Tuneful songs and talented performers.

And the fantasy of rockabilly, which opened Thursday at off-Broadway Shubert small theatre is all about the twang.

It includes books, music and lyrics of Beckham, who also directs the play. The production featured a versatile package, led by a duo of attractive lead and well-cast.

Kyle Dean Massey, who played in Broadway Pulitzer Prize - and Tony Award-winning musical "next to Normal", plays Billy Ray, an Oklahoma cowboy who abandons the plains in the hope of becoming the next big thing in music of the city.

Arriving in Nashville, Billy Ray falls head-over-heels for our innocent but valiant hero, Wanda, played by the sage of Savannah lovely, whose Broadway credits include "Rock of Ages."

The two appear natural chemistry between them on the numbers as the "Needle in a haystack." luxuriously optimistic love song Billy Ray and Wanda, with their cohorts G.C. (Jim Newman) and Chicky (Jenn Colella), of the belt on authentic, rich countries with impressive vibrato song that would make Dolly Parton proud.

In this theater image advertising published by the O and M Co., Kyle Dean Massey, left and Varla Jean Merman appear in a scene from the new musical comedy "lucky Guy", the little Shubert Theatre in New York. (AP Photo/The O and M Co., Joan Marcus) Close

The diminutive actor Leslie Jordan, known for his role of Emmy Award-winning on "Will be & Grace", made for a hilarious antagonist, Big Al, wily and scammer car salesman.

Big Al conspires with Jeannie Jeannine, the Queen of country music, to fly soon be the song by Billy Ray. Jeannie, is interpreted with panache decadent by the impressive drag diva Varla Jean Merman (otherwise called Jeffrey Roberson).

The two evil, over the top is more fun than a parade of Louisiana, particularly on the eye-catching "Makin Folks ' Money," Apart from the undeniable comedic ability of Jordan and the Merman, "Lucky" is otherwise short laugh.

The real stars of this show are the singers, Beckham about two dozen, toe-tapping songs and an orchestra with instrumentation includes guitar slide, banjo and a lot of violin.

Design of pan with extravagant taste of Rob Bissinger is at its best in grandiose, 28-room trailer of Jeannie House ("presented in the magazine mobile homes and gardens"), with imposing "columns pre-war" abstract resemble large glasses of goldenchampagne bubbles.

Also scary that are the games they upstage the main production visual highlight - costumes for five times winner of the Tony William Ivey Long, which include a table of enormous belt buckles and costume Rose of Big Al printed with showy luxury car spots.

Number of gospel agitator of Billy Ray, "Do what you can do," one of the scenes most fascinating show, dancers all dressed as angels graciously held sprawling, elegant wings.

This happily unrepentant mark swank permeates "Lucky Guy," which is located on via July 24. She could find a few amateur theatre as garish, but the fine music that bears this show should please even the most conservative of the country music purists.

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Online:

http://www.luckyguythemusical.com/