Let's watch how well the government do in this shortly and reject the silly diversions into posh boats.

Their ebullient performances ensure that this smoothly executed show, which might have been a quick-fizzling joke, is an enjoyably silly diversion.

For its 10th season, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, on the grounds of the Boscobel Restoration here, is reasserting the simpler charms of "Dream" as an amiably silly diversion for a real midsummer's night.

A Sense of Celebrity To the dumbfounded insider who leaked the document, it was a silly and sexist diversion for an organization that counts on being the next governing party.

The show has its share of enchantingly silly diversions, from T. Greenfield's Maxfield Parrish-ish set to Ramona Ponce's comic book costumes, for which she seems to have raided several hardware and furniture stores as well as wardrobe trunks.

(Isherwood) * 'ALTAR BOYZ' This sweetly satirical show about a Christian pop group made up of five potential Teen People cover boys is an enjoyable, silly diversion (1:30).

Instead, it is a smartly made, intentionally silly diversion.