I know it's a hard day to talk about a theatrical production that just opened at the Boston Opera House. My heart is filled with outrage, and sorrow, and the need to DO something about the killing of Black Americans and White Police Officers. The show I will write about must go on, and though it's not [...]
I've got the music from this show stuck in my head--so my life is now a Disney musical! Such is the irresistible power of this Broadway in Boston production of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST once it gets going-- which is somewhere at the beginning of Act II. The long-running hit musical features a relentlessly catchy score, truly outstanding voices, clever staging, [...]
TWO MUSICALS now onstage in the area will leave you thoroughly entertained and kicking up your heels: CINDERELLA downtown at the Boston Opera House, and BILLY ELLIOT up at North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly. Grab the kids and go and you'll ALL have a good time! These are excellent productions, wonderfully staged with live orchestras and a [...]
Mark Evans & Christopher John O'Neill It was a bad week for missionaries and mad men in Boston. First, THE BOOK OF MORMON blew into town on the strength of its nine Tony Awards and buzz born of NY Times Ben Brantley's boast that the show was "the best musical of this century." [...]
I love nuns. I love great voices. So there are the two reasons I was able to sit through the absolutely ridiculous Tony-nominated musical SISTER ACT which just opened at The Boston Opera House. Whoopi starred in the film (the pitch meeting:"We'll take a bunch a nuns, dress 'em in sequins and make em sing [...]
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has taken a crack at an all new production of Tchaikovsky's Christmas Ballet Classic: THE NUTCRACKER! All new sets, costumes, staging, and choreography marked this radiant world premiere production at Boston's Opera House on Friday November 23rd -opening night! I was among the very first people on the planet [...]
LOVE LOVE LOVE this show!!! Last night, I saw BILLY ELLIOT the Tony Award-winning best musical at The Opera House and walked out utterly elated-- and surprised! I had seen BILLY ELLIOT when it opened in London years ago--and wasn't impressed, though I remember loving the exhilarating 2000 Universal Pictures movie about ballet and coal [...]
