All posts by Sabrina Daly:
Sabrina Daly, a native of upstate New York, has loved theater since watching her first Broadway musical in New York City at the age of 15. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the University of Baltimore Law School, she works as a DC attorney by day and in her spare time, enjoys watching musicals, plays, movies, reading books and relearning the piano. She thinks DC is one of the most exciting places to enjoy theater and is thrilled to experience DC’s 2010 Fringe Festival.
iToonsical
July 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The imaginative team behind Fringe 2010′s hit iSchool Musical returns to Fringe with a hilarious new show, iToonsical. Based on the idea of an animated movie musical (think Disney or “South Park”), the characters in the show they created when i was there was a completely improvised musical were all animals. [Read more...]
Assembly Required: Comedy A to Y
July 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you like Fringe shows that are off-the-wall, crazy, and involve embarrassing audience participation, Assembly Required: Comedy A to Y is the right show for you! Seen in last year’s Fringe in the very funny Assembly Required: How to Write, Produce, and Stage a Musical – the Musical, Brian Sutow and Joshua Morgan (of No Rules Theatre Co) are back with their latest installment. For adult audiences only, this show is high energy and super silly from start to finish! [Read more...]
The Little Differences, or The Monster
July 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As a famous frog once lamented: It’s not easy being green. Kermit was talking about how green skin blends into the grass and leaves on trees making it hard to stand out and be noticed. In The Little Differences ,or The Monster, playwright/director Soren Paul Budge attempts a twist on a familiar theme already explored in many plays and musicals: intolerance of those who are different. [Read more...]
Z-The Apocalypse Improvised
July 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What do the last two survivors on Earth talk about after a zombie apocalypse has killed off the entire human population? That is the novel concept behind Mark Pacan and Justin Purvis’ Z-The Apocalypse Improvised. [Read more...]
My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra
June 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Infinity Theater Company opens its 2011 summer season with a swinging tribute to Ol’ Blue Eyes in My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra. Conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson, My Way invites its audience to take a trip down memory lane while reliving Sinatra’s remarkable five-decade career. [Read more...]
Stomp
January 27, 2011 By 2 Comments
The long running, award winning percussive hit, Stomp, has returned with a bang to the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 30. The show is a spectacle of percussion, movement and visual comedy, with no spoken dialogue, that takes the audience on an eye-opening journey of how music, rhythm and dance can develop by using everyday “musical instruments” like paper bags, metal paint cans and plastic tubs. You will be dancing in your seat to the energizing pulse of Stomp. [Read more...]
Cirque Dreams Holidaze
December 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There are many traditional ways to enjoy the 2010 holiday season here in Washington, D.C. You could attend any of three versions of The Nutcracker or A Christmas Carol. But if you are looking for something new to do with your family this holiday season, a trip to the historic John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to experience Cirque Dreams Holidaze, created and directed by Neil Goldberg, will be sure to dazzle and impress. [Read more...]
A Christmas Carol
November 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
The snow is gently falling and carolers are merrily singing in Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore’s delightful musical production of A Christmas Carol. Based on the Christmas classic by Charles Dickens, this fast paced musical originally ran for more than a decade at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, where it became a must see holiday attraction for many Broadway fans. [Read more...]
Sabrina Fair
October 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
Ford’s Theater opened its 2010-2011 season last week with a charming production of Samuel A. Taylor’s romantic comedy Sabrina Fair.
Written in the early 1950s, Sabrina Fair opened on Broadway in 1953 and tells a Cinderella-esque story about a young girl who is looking for true love but finds her hopes and dreams stunted by the class and social conventions in place at the time. [Read more...]
Rent
October 6, 2010 By 2 Comments
If you are one of the millions of Broadway fans who have already seen Jonathan Larson’s brilliant musical Rent (like me!), I can guarantee that you have never seen it done like this. If you missed seeing Rent when it occupied New York City’s Nederlander Theatre from 1996 through 2008 (over 5,000 performances), or during the numerous national tours, then I highly recommend seeing this amazing musical, winner of the 1996 Tony for Best Musical, now marvelously presented by Toby’s Dinner Theater of Columbia. [Read more...]
