If you wanted laughs Thursday evening, Hockeytown Café in downtown Detroit was the place to be.
Mitch Albom’s “Hockey, the Musical!” opened before a packed City Theatre and had the audience roaring for most of the 90 minutes.
The musical, written by Albom and directed by his younger brother Peter, details the journey of five “pure souls” called upon to save the sport from abolition after God deemed the sport expendable.
“It’s all about laughter and having fun,” Albom told the Free Press before the show’s debut. “A lot of the things that I’ve created on a large scale … have had some serious overtones to them or life lessons.