'Gimme a Band' delves into Carmen Miranda's all-too-colorful story

A big tip of a tropical-fruit-bedecked hat to Pointless Theatre for its distinctive and ebullient contribution to the Women's Voices Theater Festival. Many young theater companies might quail at the prospect of devising a Busby Berkeley-style production number for the tiny Trinidad Theatre stage, but "Gimme a Band, Gimme a Banana! The Carmen Miranda Story" contains multiple sequences along these lines. Written by Mel Bieler and Patti Kalil, and cannily directed by Roberta Alves and Matt Reckeweg...