Whether “in L.A.” or New York, love, despair, triumph and failure are always the price of Fame. Fame: the Musical is based on the 1980 silver screen flick, Fame, by Alan Parker. It was originally launched at West End in 1995. Since then, it has been seen by nearly 4 million people and has been […]
Mount Vernon High School’s performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I was smart, interesting, colorful, et cetera et cetera et cetera. The cast worked well together and helped compensate for weaker members, both vocally and with staging. The King (junior Brad Witucki) and Anna (senior Elaina Daoulas) dance the polka The show, based […]
Ever wonder if anyone suffers as you do from the gross inadequacies of the human race? The answer would be The Man Who Came to Dinner staged by Chantilly High School on April 28th. Invited to dinner in remote Mesalia, Ohio, bombastic radio wit Sheridan Whiteside slips on his hosts’ icy doorstep, confining him to […]
You didn’t have to be a cock-eyed optimist to enjoy JEB Stuart High School’s production of South Pacific. Their rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical was delightful, replete with stunning lead performers and an ensemble to match. South Pacific, set in the war-torn 1940s, centers around a young nurse stationed in the Pacific Islands, […]
The entire auditorium was transformed into a farm, with straw scattered in the aisles, a milling crowd of animals clustered on the stage, and a giant sign brandishing the name of “Manor Farm” over the audience’s heads; Yorktown High was performing Animal Farm, adapted by Nelson Bond from the novel by George Orwell. Orwell published […]
It’s anything but an ordinary day outside, but in this tiny Queens apartment, the insanity is status quo. A mélange of outrageous characters and even more outrageous situations came together beautifully in McLean High School’s performance of the dark comedy The House of Blue Leaves. John Guare’s portrait of nobodies adrift in a sea of […]
“I need to go where no man has ventured before, to search for the key to the door that will end all this tragic and senseless decay! But how to go? I need to know!” In that case, make your way over to Centreville High School as they perform the malevolent story of Jekyll & […]
David Miranda (Pippin), Kate Parkin (Catherine) and Nate Tao (Theo) Punk rock and medieval history are two concepts rarely seen together, but were blended into a fascinating fantasy world in Herndon High School‘s Pippin. Young Pippin (David Miranda) is on the timeless quest to find himself and the show recounts all the trials he must […]
“An incurably romantic disposition” was ever present throughout Arms and the Man, a melodrama chock full of love triangles, unusually comedic rebellion, and ‘chocolate cream’ Swiss soldiers conquering the hearts of southern belles. Written by George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion) who originally set the show during the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the F/X Players exercised artistic license to […]
Frank Sinatra is post-war America, belting “New York, New York,” in the much-famed 1949 film version of On the Town. That same musical represents the all glitz and glamour the Big Apple had to offer, all the class – but at the same time appealing to the common man with its classic boy-meets-girl style plot. […]