Improv puppet show could use a script

An idea brimming with as much ambition as wackiness never jells in this latest offering from the Un-Scripted Theater Company. True, the show changes every night — that's kind of the thrill of a completely improvised two-hour Bollywood-style puppet musical comedy. But the uneven improv instincts of some of the performers, who fall back on pensive silence or who lack the chops for the intricate Indian singing style, doesn't bode well for any location and theme audiences might throw at them. There will still likely be some great moments of puppet comic relief — you might get treated to a romantic lead who looks like a mop with eyeballs, or a slo-mo invisible sword fight. And you'll be impressed with how the cast and director Mandy Khoshnevisan have created a coherent and even surprisingly touching story by night's end. But the group brought together for this show has yet to find the rhythm and punch needed to make the whole night sing.