Toby’s Dinner Theatre stages a vigorous and joyous production of Hairspray under the direction of Toby Orenstein.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change cuts through the mountain of seasonal schlock and delivers a hilarious, bittersweet, and refreshingly honest look at love and relationships.
White Christmas
Like Sarah Lee, nobody doesn’t love White Christmas. And so if David Ives and Paul Blake have constructed a pallid book which is little more than a sagging tree to be hung with Irving Berlin’s ornaments,
Annie
A cynic might say the musical Annie is family theatre cooked up by recipe. Start with a plucky young girl looking for love and family, add orphans, mix in cartoonish villains, stir with a rich businessman, marinate repeatedly with a memorable song, sprinkle in just enough historical humor for the parents, and serve with a […]
Pie Talk: Lynne Sigler on playing Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd
Every 25 years or so, Lynne Sigler likes to pre-heat the oven, roll out and pound the pie dough, and make those “Worst Pies in London”. Co-starring with Helen Hayes nominee Russell Sunday, who plays the demon barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd
Among all the accomplishments of his astonishing career, Stephen Sondheim will be remembered most for this iconoclastic wonder; a musical comedy about a serial killer.
Mid-Life, The Crisis Musical
Mid-Life, The Crisis Musical Book, Music and Lyrics by Bob Walton and Jim Walton Directed by Shawn Kettering Produced by Toby’s Dinner Theatre, Columbia Reviewed by Ted Ying You’ve heard the one about a person who spends the day trying to do some chores but, getting distracted at each step of the way, ends the […]
Four shows that are gifts from Santa
A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Christmas Carol, Seasonal Disorder and An iMusical Christmas! A Holiday Labor of Love! It was a difficult week for me and some of my close friends. Many of us were called into to our human resources offices and heard those dreaded words, “I’m so sorry, but we had to […]
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol Book by Mike Ockrent and Lynn Ahrens Music by Allen Menken . Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Directed by Daniel L. McDonald Produced by Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore Reviewed by Leslie Weisman Toby’s Dinner Theatre is a place where the show may be the main reason you’re there, but it’s usually not […]
The Producers
The Producers Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks Directed by and Choreographed by Chris Suchan Produced by Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia Reviewed by Ted Ying Where did they go right? Since Zero Mostel first asked that in the original 1968 movie, every Max Bialystock has wanted to […]
West Side Story
West Side Story Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Directed by and Choreographed by Mark Minnick Produced by Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore Reviewed by Ted Ying “You saw how they dance, like they have to get rid of something…too much energy,” says Anita in West Side Story. High […]
David Jennings on Playing Joseph
by Joel Markowitz March 7 — It’s opening night and Joel Markowitz sits down to talk with local young actor David Jennings who plays the lead in the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Toby’s – The Dinner Theatre of Columbia.