"I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" is a musical entertainment about a 39-year-old woman finding herself.

For once, the standard disclaimer must be reversed: The subject does not do justice to this summary description.

There is some freshness of aspiration but none of achievement in this collection of songs and skits about the troubles of a pop singer trying to find a new image for herself.

There is a touch of wit here and there. Gretchen Cryer … is trying to say something honest about aging and feminine identity. Her perception fails her, she falls into platitude after platitude and comes up with a show that is both insubstantial and very heavy….

[Cryer and Ford] seem to be catching up with a number of theater conventions and ideas of the 70's, and arriving late….

Self-celebration is the affliction of "I'm Getting My Act." Its...