Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
The Wick’s La Cage aux Folles Is Glittery Glamorous Pleasure
Spangles sparkle in the spotlight as styling showgirls parade across the stage in a musical celebration of enduring love, joie de vivre and self-respect – which proudly encompasses adherents of every sexuality. The Wick Theatre’s revival of La Cage aux Folles has everything that its last musical, Mame, was missing – beginning with showbiz pizzazz.
One-Man Restaurant Play Serves Up A Smorgasbord of Characters In Comic Fully Committed
John Manzelli plays a harried scheduler at a trendy restaurant — and about 40 coworkers and patrons — in Fully Committed at the Broward Center
Mad Cat’s Deconstructed Spin On Simon’s Star Spangled Girl Is Off-Beat Mash-Up, Natch
Mad Cat Theatre’s daffy deconstruction of a 1966 Neil Simon The Star Spangled Girl elicited plenty of laughs, but the schizophrenic clashing of styles didn’t land as strongly as anyone hoped
The Lion King Roars Back Into The Broward Center With Much Of The Original Magic Intact
Disney, for all its theatrical sins, deserves credit for at least one benefit: You can see what your parents were talking about when they raved about the magic of some theatrical piece from back in the day. Because the return of The Lion King shows Disney knows how to keep that magic alive.
Breaking News: Florida Grand Opera To Cancel Next Season In Broward Without $400,000
Large-scale opera productions would disappear from Broward County during the 2015-2016 season if area patrons and corporations do not pledge at least $400,000 by the end of this month, the Florida Grand Opera announced late Tuesday afternoon
Cutting Edge Mad Cat Still Challenging Audiences As It Nears 15th Anniversary
Mad Cat Theatre Company’s approaching 15th anniversary is cause to assess its place in the local arts scene. Mad Cat may not have been the first company in South Florida to produce the thespian equivalent of rock n’ roll theater. But it was among the first and it remains the sole survivor of that vanguard.
Report From New York: Scorching Disgraced Is Classic Thought-Provoking Theater
Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer-winning Disgraced is a scalding rebuke to anyone who thinks that any section of our society has come to an intellectual or emotional homeostasis about social, cultural and geopolitical divisions.
Talkin’ In The Green Room With… John Manzelli
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida’s best known professionals Producer, director, fight arranger, educator, arts advocate, and artistic director, John Manzelli has been best known in recent years …
Disney’s Precisely Manufactured Beauty And The Beast Tour Can Still Charm An Audience
This sharply honed, finely tuned, precisely executed national tour of Beauty and the Beast piece of theater inexplicably does not seem stale. If there isn’t an overflowing sense of soul pouring from the stage, no one is coasting; everyone is throwing every shred of craft they possess into it. You know it works because the opening night audience went crazy at the curtain call.
Report From New York: Seaworthy The Last Ship Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Sink
Back in the day, whenever that was, a Broadway musical that had a raft of virtues but wasn’t a perfectly satisfying piece had a good chance of running an entire season. But with astronomical running costs and ticket prices, such survivals are rare these days. The Last Ship is currently a test case whether that paradigm is still possible.
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