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Maltz’s Harold Hill To Dance Through Town Like A Pied Piper
A con man has come to north Palm Beach County to steal your money. His name’s not Bernie Madoff; it’s Harold Hill. Well, actually, it’s the effervescent triple-threat performer Matt Loehr wearing the braided band leader’s uniform as he leads the citizens of River City, Iowa, in a parade through the Maltz Jupiter Theatre auditorium like a Pied Piper in The Music Man opening this week.
Outre Theatre’s First Show Is Challenging ‘The Wild Party’
Some troupes ease into existence with a modest, surefire and frugal first full production. Not Outré Theater Company. South Florida’s newest professional company bows Friday with Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party. The 2000 off-Broadway cult hit combines a brilliant but edgy Jazz Age score with a jet black story of self-destructive hedonists in the 1920s who indulge in virtually every vice imaginable.
Miami Theater Center Plans Three Sisters To Move Audience In More Than One Way
By Bill Hirschman What will likely have people talking as they walk into the Miami Theater Center this weekend for its new adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters is where they’ll sit: a black riser taking up a third of the …
Slow Burn’s Avenue Q Has Actors Talking To Their Hands
Backstage at rehearsals for this weekend’s opening of Slow Burn Theatre Company’s Avenue Q, it was not unusual to find actors offstage talking to their puppets. Michael Westrich, who portrays college graduate Princeton, said it goes farther than that. “Sometimes we’re backstage having a conversation and we find the puppets are talking.”
Last Call: The Sounds of Success
Don’t call Terri Girvin’s Last Call a solo piece when it returns to the Broward Center this week. She’s the first to say that the precisely timed sound effects ingrained into a comic monologue about her life as a bartender make her carefully choreographed odyssey more than a one-woman show.
Maltz’s Amadeus Luxuriates In Highly Theatrical Storytelling
Maltz Jupiter theatergoers need to manage their expectations of next week’s run of the play Amadeus, better known for the film about the mediocre composer Salieri’s rivalry with Mozart. Peter Shaffer’s masterpiece is not just different, it’s better. Regardless of the quality of the production, it is a different work of art, said director Michael Gieleta and star Tom Bloom who plays the narrator and audience surrogate Salieri.
Miami Native Pursues Theater And Rock Dreams As Lead In Rock of Ages At The Arsht
Is there a better high for a theater artist than to return home starring in a national tour of a hit Broadway show? Ask Miami native Dominique “Dom” Scott. When the Miami native takes the Arsht Center stage Tuesday to play the guitar hero in the spoofy musical Rock of Ages, it’ll be an artistic homecoming as well.
Tom Wahl Is His Own Cast In Zoetic’s “I Am My Own Wife”
Audiences often marvel at actors’ ability to memorize long speeches and complex dialogue. But few memorization jobs are as daunting as that of I Am My Own Wife. When Tom Wahl stands alone for two hours in the spotlight in Zoetic Stage’s production this week, he not only portrays the elderly German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, but a gallery of 36 distinct, disparate characters (or is it 37 or 34; Wahl and director Stuart Meltzer aren’t sure).
Talkin’ in the Green Room With: Amy London
For nearly two decades, Amy London has been a fixture of South Florida theater: behind the director’s table, wearing a stage manager’s headset, acting, leading the Fort Lauderdale Players, hostess at various backyard get-togethers and executive director of the Carbonell Awards. In this edition of the Green Room we find out how she helped piss off the Ku Klux Klan and what she does in the stage manager’s booth when there’s a call of nature.
Chance Remark At Stage Door Holocaust Play’s Intermission Leads To Moving Surprise
Two Florida men who by chance sat next to each other at the Holocaust play at Broward Stage Door, A Shayna Maidel, discovered they had been in the same forced labor camp during World War II.
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