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COHOES The late, great Debbie Reynolds once sang “Love Is a Simple Thing,” a pop standard by June Carroll and Arthur Siegel.
But according to lyricist Joe DiPietro and composer Jimmy Roberts, it really isn’t, and therein lies the hilarity (and occasional poignance) of this musical from 1996, now in a sterling production at Cohoes Music Hall.
Producing artistic director Owen Smith and his Playhouse Stage Company have thrown open the doors after all of these awful months and, with proper protocols in place, invited us to try indoor theater again. If you feel up to it (vaccinations provide both a medical and psychological measure of comfort), you will be rewarded with a script that charts the course of true love which, as another noted wordsmith wrote, “never did run smooth.”