It’s always a risky proposition to transform a beloved film into a musical, and for every Beetlejuice or Mean Girls success story, there’s a Ghost or Pretty Woman that just couldn’t muster the same passionate fan base as their movie counterparts. A musical version of A Christmas Story, based on the cult holiday classic movie […]
Archives for November 26, 2019
Review: The Powers That Be – A Rock Opera at Venus Theatre
How does one process unspeakable pain in losing a loved one to violence? Sanguine expressions of “thoughts and prayers” have no place in The Powers That Be, a hard rocking contemplation on the anguish that predators and killers leave behind. Deborah Randall has tackled the unthinkable, capturing and fully expressing the pain and misery of […]
Review: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Musical!). Perfection and the scene stealers keep coming
If you think you hear the gloriously ingenious cackling of delighted children, it may be emanating from the Family Theater at The Kennedy Center. If it is mixed with some lower-pitched guffaws, those may be coming from the same place, emanating from the adults who have accompanied kids to the world premiere musical Don’t Let […]
Review: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe at Imagination Stage
To leap, bound, and twirl through Narnia is to enjoy the storied fantasy world anew, watching the Pevensie children learn the value of sacrifice, friendship, family, love, and, of course, the triumph, of good over evil through dance. Imagination Stage has turned C.S. Lewis’ 1950 beloved children’s novel—The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe—into a […]
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