Beaconsfield

They say that humor = tragedy + time. That's not always true. I still haven't heard a good joke about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by the Black Hand. And so I don't know if it's too soon, or just the wrong subject matter that more people are offended than are laughing at the new musical comedy based on a 2006 mine collapse titled Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor. I believe that this is one of those situations where somebody came up with the title after a few drinks and built a show around it. Even given an appropriate amount of time, I have a hard time believing this is a winning idea, if for no other reason than it's a musical.