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Musicals

On The Town

May 18, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

3 Sailors Photo Mark S Howard

Musical (1944)
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square, Boston, MA
May 10 – June 8, 2013

The classic early Bernstein-Robbins-Comden-Green World War II musical about three sailors on a 24 hour leave in New York City, done with energy and style.

In The Heights

May 16, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

In The Heights Company

Musical (2005)
Music and lyrics by
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Speakeasy Stage Company
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
May 10 – June 16, 2013

A lively and engaging rendition of the Tony winning Broadway musical about Washington Heights, a dominantly Hispanic neighborhood in northern Manhattan.

Lady In The Dark

April 10, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Album cover of Lady In the Dark

Play with Music (1941)
by Moss Hart
Music by Kurt Weill
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Produced by Anneke Reich
Directed by Abby Armstrong
Brandeis Theater Company
Senior Thesis Festival 2013
Spingold Theater Center
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
April 10, 12, 2013

A delightful and adept rendition of a wonderful, somewhat obscure, musical play – about a powerful magazine editor in a state of personal transition – crafted by a trio of theatrical greats — Moss Hart, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin.

Marry Me A Little

January 11, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait 1434 Courtesy National Gallery London

Musical Revue (1981)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Sondheim
Conceived and Developed
by Craig Lucas and Norman Rene
New Repertory Theatre
Arsenal Center for the Arts
Watertown, MA
January 6 – 27, 2013

A delightful, compact repackaging of a collection of Sondheim songs that almost made it into various of his shows.

Pippin

January 3, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Acrobats

Musical (1972)
Music and Lyrics
by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Roger O. Hirson
Directed by Diane Paulus
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
December 5, 2012 –
January 20, 2013

A revival of the 70s musical, putatively about Charlemagne’s son, but mostly about growing up, enhanced by the wonderful circus arts of Les 7 Doigts de la Main from Montreal.

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