Like all the best road trips viewed through the rearview mirror, the high points of Miss You Like Hell look even brighter than they did when experiencing them.
Michelle Hernandez (Beatriz) and Larissa Mehlig (Olivia) shine as the mother-daughter pair in Out the Box Theatre Company’s production. They have terrific chemistry and a convincing familial friction that’s so critical to the plotline here: the story of a cross-country mother-daughter reconciliation road trip, set to music, of course.
The music is definitely the most appealing part of this show and their singing is both moving and melodic. I was particularly touched during their duet on “Mothers” (“A Mother is the slipperiest thing a daughter could wish for” and “Mothers are the trickiest things, the trickiest by far”); Mehlig’s solo on “Sundays” (about a daughter who only sees her mother on their special Sundays together); and Hernandez giving herself a pep talk on “Lioness,” a song that’s reprised a few times.