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I’m sad to say that Dominion Stage’s production of that musical hit of hits, Spring Awakening, which I saw at Gunston Theatre One this past Saturday, did not seem ready for presentation. Lines had been learned, cues had been memorized, characters had been explored, but the cast had not yet made the show theirs. I did [...]
The Arlington Players (TAP) debuted their production of the 1968 musical Promises, Promises on October 5th at the Thomas Jefferson High Community Center. Director John Moran picked a strong script which lays out all the pieces for a great show. Characters are written three-dimensionally, and the plot gradually pulls the audience in. Although TAP’s rendition [...]
As one might gather from the “blockhead” portion of the production Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, presented by the Tidewater Players at the Community Theatre of Havre de Grace, drops in on the characters from Charles M. Schultz’s world-famous comic strip, Peanuts. Charlie and Sally, Linus and Lucy, Snoopy and Woodstock, Marcy [...]
Some plays are 120 solid minutes of sorrow, showcasing the vulnerable hell that is the human condition. Others ask its members to see themselves as cogs in an oppressive machine and some plays want you to return home from your night out on the town numb, guilty, disgusted, wondering if the world is actually dreadful [...]
There are surely many Jacques Brel purists out there who say: if you translate “Le Moribond” and “Les Filles et Les Chiens” to any other language, you will damage and lose the songwriter’s meaning. The famed Brel recorded a number of songs in English for his UK and American releases in the 1960s and 70s, [...]
Ahhh YouTube, that omnipresent giver of precious baby animal videos and just about everything else entertaining. The current generation was practically raised on it, and it is surely a trying task for them to remember a time when such-and-such iconic song from a given movie couldn’t be called up instantly on the Internet regardless of [...]
