As the new fall musical season approaches, let’s look back at five performances that left me breathless from musicals that graced our local stages the past year.
(1) AND (2) FELICIA CURRY IN AIDA AT TOBY’S-THE DINNER THEATRE OF COLUMBIA, AND TWO QUEENS, ONE CASTLE AT METROSTAGE.
A hot and spicy curry burned up the stage in two hot shows last year. Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Watch out for this human cyclone!! Felicia Curry, a petite powerhouse actress and singer extraordinaire, caused the earth to move at Toby’s-The Dinner Theatre of Columbia, and MetroStage where she portrayed Aida, the Nubian princess trying to save her father and her people in the Elton John-Tim Rice musical, and writer Jevetta Steele, whose world falls apart when her “down low” husband, who is infected with HIV, cheats on her with a man.
