Jenny Cartney on conducting Chess
September 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
It was definitely the right move when Jenny Cartney was made the conductor of the extraordinary group of musicians that comprise the orchestra of the musical Chess at Signature Theatre. Jenny talks about working with David Holcenberg, who provided the lush orchestrations for the production, her work as both conductor and keyboardist, and her love for the cast of Signature’s new production of Chess. [Read more...]
Billy Elliot: The Musical
September 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The only cast recording of Billy Elliot bears a parental advisory for language. It should also bear the label “No synopsis included – if you haven’t seen the show be prepared for confounding confusion.” [Read more...]
Mauritius
September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“I’m so glad nobody was killed,” an audience member, walking past me, remarked to a companion.
Well, of course, murder was on the table. We’re talking about stamp collecting, aren’t we?
Mauritius is a love story – a story about love of stamps, and love of money, and other, mostly doomed, love drifting mysteriously through a half-told backstory. [Read more...]
Play Nice!
September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The intimate Venus Theatre performance space has been cleverly transformed into an old attic by Joe Musemeci. The seemingly low hanging rafters make you feel like stooping. The space is filled with the castoffs of the Diamond family of Ridgwood, NJ: old books, maps, a wardrobe with clothes, even your seats are their mismatched chairs, set along three sides of the room. [Read more...]
OVO
September 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Suspended some 45 feet in the air, under the Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) at National Harbor, a silky, cream-colored cocoon is undulating gracefully. The butterfly (aerialist Inna Mayorova) is making her escape. [Read more...]
Cast changes for Glimpses of the Moon
September 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Natascia Diaz, winner of last year’s Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in Metro Stage’s ROOMS, a rock romance, will be assuming the lead role of Susy Branch when Metro Stage’s new season officially opens Sunday, September 12th with the romantic musical Glimpses of the Moon. [Read more...]
OVO’s creator and her world of insects
September 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Over the years, the creative masterminds, elastic-limbed acrobats and clowns of Cirque du Soleil have given the world a look at the evolution of mankind, the music of Elvis and The Beatles, and space travel [Read more...]
Early extensions announced for Signature and Woolly shows
September 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
With the new season barely under way, two shows have already announced extensions based on high box office demand. Could it be that we are seeing early indicators for a season of full houses and maybe even some hard-to-get tickets? [Read more...]
Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch join A Little Night Music
September 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
When Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch agree to return to Broadway for a spell, it doesn’t much matter in what. If you’re a theatre nut, as many of us are, you leave your cozy fire and hop on down to the Walter Kerr Theatre where they’ve both roosted for a while. [Read more...]
Something You Did
September 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
The times, they stay the same. For thirty long and lonely years the brilliant Alison Moulton has lived the bleak, unchanging life of a maximum security prison inmate. Her crime: lending a hand – and possibly some supplies – to her young activist friends for an anti-war bombing in downtown New York, which resulted in the death of a police officer who shouldn’t have been there, but was nevertheless. [Read more...]
