The Huffington Post announced Saturday that the Shakespeare Theatre has changed the names of Much Ado About Nothing’s Juan Huevos and Jose Frijoles, two of the buffoons featured in Dogberry’s rustic troupe of morons, back to their original names of Hugh Oatcake and George Seacoal in response to a letter-writing campaign launched by Tlaloc Rivas, […]
Archives for December 19, 2011
Billy Elliot the Musical
The touring production of Billy Elliot, the Musical, now ensconsed at the Kennedy Center Opera House, is a driving, energetic, and oddly appropriate holiday feast for thoughtful theatergoers. Spun off from the eponymous film version, the stage musical has a less oppressive feel than the original. But it still packs an emotional and political punch, particularly […]
Lysistrata Jones
Back in what now seems like the “not so good old days,” each Broadway season seemed to offer at least one fun filled show about athletes (all male then) and the ladies in their lives. The package included melodic scores, topical lyrics and ebullient dancing. The genre slipped away in the post-WWII evolution of musicals, […]
A Christmas Carol
Paul Morella, backed by the Olney Theatre Center, has done something wonderful with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. He has taken it back to its roots by returning to the novella penned by Dickens in 1843 and brings it to life in the simplest possible terms. He tells the tale exactly as written, as Dickens himself […]