I've been seeing a lot of theater lately while nursing a broken shoulder and it's just what the doctor ordered! Listen. It's going to be rainy this weekend. Maybe thunder and lightning. Very dramatic. So why not take the drama indoors and check out some of the fabulous offerings onstage in and around Boston this [...]
QUICK TAKES on what's onstage NOW in and around Boston-- This is the last weekend to see MY FAIR LADY presented by Broadway in Boston at the OPERA HOUSE. ACT I was bogged down in muddy sound and even muddier cockney accents. Madeline Powell as leading lady Eliza Doolittle lacked the role's requisite charm and [...]
Heads up. HAMILTON is a great show. OK OK. You knew that-- but I finally saw it for myself. I left the theater with my jaw on the floor and the score vibrating through my bones. The theatrical shot heard round the world has taken three years to get to Boston's Opera House-- as if [...]
The rhythm IS going to get you, whether you like it or not. So strap yourself in if you don't want to be seen in a conga line up the aisles of the Opera House! ON YOUR FEET:THE EMILIO & GLORIA ESTEFAN BROADWAY MUSICAL has just hit Boston with a dynamite cast, and [...]
WAITRESS--I saw this show hot out of the oven at its 2015 Broadway-bound world premiere at the A.R.T. Based on a charming, offbeat film and turned into a scrumptious slice of musical theater by Diane Paulus and an all female team, it depends on a key ingredient: a score by Grammy award-winning pop artist Sara [...]
Two musicals have just descended on the Boston area: one old, one new--each with its ups and downs. Mara Cecilia as PEGGY SAWYER First,"Come and meet those dancing feet/On the avenue I'm taking you to/42ND STREET"--now in Waltham at the REAGLE THEATRE just finishing up its 49th season! This is the final weekend of [...]
What can you say about a dead dog that hasn't been said already? That it was stabbed with a pitchfork and discovered by a teenage math wiz with some unusual behavioral problems? "Holy f__k!" the play's opening salvo, is delivered by the dog's owner as she stumbles upon the teenager at the grisly scene center stage, in a shaft of light. So begins "The Curious Incident [...]
To paraphrase the bard, there's nothing rotten with the state of entertainment in Boston this week! A hit Broadway musical has just launched its national tour right here at the Boston Opera House: SOMETHING ROTTEN! It is, however, overripe--with big production numbers, superb voices, witty songs, exuberant choreography, and copious laughs. In other words, it's a feast for anyone who likes their musicals riotously scrambled or [...]
I have a new favorite musical and it's called MATILDA THE MUSICAL!!! This literate, darkly funny, empowering, and bizarrely inventive Tony award-winner just hit the Boston Opera House in its first national tour-- and don't you dare miss it! MATILDA THE MUSICAL is based on Roald Dahl's best-selling novel, and captures the writer's strange and shadowy sensibility, as [...]
HAMILTON's coming--in 2017-18!! DATES & ON-SALE TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER. BUT FIRST, here's NEXT Season 2016-2017 Lexus Broadway In Boston Season Direct from Broadway: *The National Tour of SOMETHING ROTTEN! officially launches in Boston *National Theatre production THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME *Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I *American [...]
