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. […]
“He’s just a bang-beat, bell-ringing, big haul, great go, neck-or-nothin’ rip-roarin’, every time a bull’s eye salesman – that’s Professor Harold Hill, Harold Hill.” At Hylton High School, Harold Hill cons his way up and down the streets of River City, and through the hearts of the audience in The Music Man. Written by Meredith […]
Tom runs out – as the lights dim, he narrates for the last time, trapped in his guilty memories of his sister Laura, who he left behind. Duke Ellington‘s production of The Glass Menagerie was powerful and moving, evoking the haunting themes of the impossibility of escape and the trap of memory. Written by Tennessee […]
Sex and literature provide the focus for Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece Arcadia. The play, once nominated as “the best science book ever written” by London’s Royal Institution, rides on humankind’s omnipresent connection to the past and future. Thomasina Coverly – played by Maddy Smith Arcadia‘s first New York performance in 1995 featured the talents of Academy […]
A geek with a soft spot for flora and an alien plant with a craving for blood come together in the unforgettably zany Little Shop of Horrors produced by T.C. Williams. Giant plant, Audrey II (voiced by Kit Connor), Mushnik (Thler Decourt) and Seymour (Ethan Stine) Little Shop of Horrors the musical was produced in […]
The bare steel bones of what will be a towering skyscraper frame silhouetted figures; the harsh rhythm of one worker’s hammer sounds – and then the city begins to sing as Woodbridge Senior High School‘s production of Working opens. Cast of Working Working debuted on Broadway in 1978 and, in the short time it ran, […]
Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee, fiddley faddley foddle. Seton School‘s vivacious production of Cinderella was anything but poppy cock and twoddle. This version of the well-revered story of Cinderella and her Prince Charming was originally written for television in 1957 by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and was later adapted to the stage. It follows Cinderella, a […]
Welcome aboard the SS American, tickets please. Enjoy Paul VI High School‘s “delightful, delicious, and de-lovely” production of Cole Porter’s classic Anything Goes. Cast of Anything Goes This is the story of stockbroker Billy Crocker. After learning that the love of his life Hope Harcourt was aboard the SS American, he sneaks on the ship […]