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Ain’t Misbehavin’ –
The Fats Waller Musical

May 13, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Motley Hot Rhythm

Musical, Revue, Concert
Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
May 1-29, 2022

A wonderfully exuberant production of the revue, originally conceived in the late 1970s, of dramatized songs of the great jazz composer and master of the “stride” piano technique.

Once On This Island

March 17, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Cast

Musical (1990)
Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Directed by Pascale Florestal
Musical Direction by David Freeman Coleman
Speakeasy Stage
Boston Center for the Arts
South End, Boston
March 11 – April 16, 2022

An exuberant and beautifully produced piece of story theater about a love affair across classes and racial divides on an island in the French Antilles .

The Last Five Years

December 9, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

The Last Five Years

Musical (2001)
Written and composed by Jason Robert Brown
Lyric Stage
Copley Square area, Boston
November 12 – December 12, 2021

With Jared Troilo and Kira Troilo
Jamie and Cathy are getting divorced, or maybe they are getting married, or both. That’s the way it is in this poignant two-person musical in which one character goes forward and the other backward in time.

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

February 13, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Cast

Musical (1967)
Book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado
Music by Galt Macdermot

Directed and choreographed by Rachel Bertone
New Repertory Theatre
Mosesian Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 26 – February 23, 2020

A remounting of the original hippie musical which saw its release on Broadway fifty-two years ago.

Parade

December 12, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Leo Lucille

Musical (1998)
Music and lyrics by
Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry

An excellent production of the musical based on a true story about Leo Frank, a Jew who was unjustly indicted for a murder in Atlanta in 1914.

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