http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/08/crowns-2/ Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:52:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/08/crowns-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8323 Paula Y. Bickham Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:50:08 +0000 http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=5617#comment-8323 "Crowns" is wonderful. It is a fashion show of costumes from head to toes. It is educational, fun, and engaging, and a show the entire family can see. “Crowns” is wonderful. It is a fashion show of costumes from head to toes. It is educational, fun, and engaging, and a show the entire family can see.

]]> http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/08/crowns-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8274 David Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:42:27 +0000 http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=5617#comment-8274 Thank you, Debbie. I'm so glad the show gotcha-- it does me every time as well. I write principally to say thank you for covering it at all. Many reviewers are skipping it, and the Post buried it's review on the back page. I find this dismissiveness strange. Year after year we'll read reviews of Christmas Carol or Nutcracker, which frequently are unchanged from the previous year. And those reviews never go out of their way to express their cynicism about an audience-pleasing 'back by popular demand' choice. And this production is so very different, in all aspects, from what's come before it deserved to be evaluated on its own merits. To say nothing of the fact that its drawing people to this U Street venue that is a city treasure that too few people patronize. So, thank you for taking the show on its own terms and staying open to your own susceptibility to it. Thousands of people share your experience with it, even if your media colleagues are closed to it. Thank you, Debbie. I’m so glad the show gotcha– it does me every time as well. I write principally to say thank you for covering it at all. Many reviewers are skipping it, and the Post buried it’s review on the back page. I find this dismissiveness strange. Year after year we’ll read reviews of Christmas Carol or Nutcracker, which frequently are unchanged from the previous year. And those reviews never go out of their way to express their cynicism about an audience-pleasing ‘back by popular demand’ choice. And this production is so very different, in all aspects, from what’s come before it deserved to be evaluated on its own merits. To say nothing of the fact that its drawing people to this U Street venue that is a city treasure that too few people patronize. So, thank you for taking the show on its own terms and staying open to your own susceptibility to it. Thousands of people share your experience with it, even if your media colleagues are closed to it.

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