The actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing dangerous criminals in this Off-Broadway musical. Well-meaning, cleverly designed and terrifically sung, Broadway Bounty Hunter has a game and talented cast, a funky pastiche R&B […]
Archives for July 23, 2019
Review: Disney’s Aladdin. It’s all about the spectacle and Major Attaway as Genie
“It’s the plot that you knew/ with a small twist or two/ but the changes we made were slight,” croons Major Attaway as the Genie in the finale of Aladdin national tour, now at the Kennedy Center. This not-quite-apology acknowledgment of the awkward tension between the nostalgia that drives a ticket purchase (in this case […]