The Jack Of Hearts Club

The ensemble in The Jack of Hearts Club is brilliantly cast, a mix of local and outside talent, with each character a perfect fit with its performer. Mary Callanan, as club owner Dorothy, brings a theater vet’s confidence to the role, and she sings with burlesque charm. As Elizabeth, her daughter, Brittany Rolfs has a powerhouse voice and an intense emotionality. As Queena, the club’s grande dame, James Jackson Jr. offers charisma to spare and sings with a commanding R&B inflection that steals every scene he’s in. João Santos, as Sebastian, is precisely the comic sidekick Queena requires. Peter Toto and Angelo McDonough deliver great patter and dancing as the closeted couple Timmy and Arthur, respectively. Local artist Mike Sullivan is thoroughly disarming as Charlie, and the Provincetown Brewing Co.’s Christopher Spaulding is persuasive as Clive, the man about town. Marissa Miller, as Maggie, has a knockout, lilting voice and an alluring presence. And at the center of it all, acting while accompanying every song on the piano, author-composer Jon Richardson is terrific as Sonny, from his sweetly naïve start to his deeply touching end.