Tag Archives: Ashley Rubin

Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight At MNM’s A Funny Thing

MNM Theatre Company’s delightfully silly production of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum is a musical that prides itself on broad low and often ribald humor, pratfalls, double takes and half the encyclopedia of vaudevillian comedy.

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Aaron Bower, Alexandra Dow, Alexandra Van Hasselt, Ashley Rubin, Elijah Pearson-Martinez, Frank Francisco, J Savage, Johnbarry Green, Jonathan Van Dyke, Laura Plyer, Lauren Cluett, Meg Frost, Meredith Pughe, Michael Scott Ross, MNM Productions, Paul Reekie, Paul Thompson, Sean William Davis, Terry Hardcastle, Troy Stanley | Leave a comment

MNM’s Grease Struts Its Stuff When The Music Starts

If you hire strong voices as they did in MNM Theatre Company’s production, the venerable musical Grease cannot help but be entertaining with its elbow-nudging pastiche of faux late ‘50s-early ‘60s rock n’ roll. The challenge in which MNM doesn’t prevail is finding the difficult to locate tone for the script scenes because Grease is not simply a straight ahead comedy as it’s played here.

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Ashley Rubin, Bruce Linser, Caiti Marlowe, Cameron Jordan, Cara Harpest, Emily Tarallo, Israel Vinas, Janna Morrison, Jesse Veliz, Jim Ballard, Jonah Robinson, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Laura Plyer, Meredith Pughe, MNM Theatre Company, Paul Reekie | Leave a comment

Victor/Victoria Is Two Times The Fun With Emphasis On Antics

There’s more than a bit of Noel Coward running through Broward Stage Door Theatre’s Victor/Victoria. It’s what makes this production tick, a true understanding, and might we say, appreciation of the slapstick foundation of the 1995 Broadway musical version of Blake Edward’s 1982 movie.

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Ashley Rubin, Broward Stage Door Theatre, Dalia Aleman, James A. Skiba, Kevon Black, Larry Buzzeo, Troy Stanley, Victor/Victoria | Leave a comment

Lee Roy Reams’ Dolly Is At His/Her Best Inhabiting The Widow’s Resurrecting Reveries

The first question that everyone wants answered is: Is it possible to buy Lee Roy Reams as Dolly Levi in The Wick Theatre’s Hello, Dolly! The answer is “sometimes.” The answer also depends on how willing you are to accept the theatrical conceit of Reams being the second man ever to play the part, even with composer Jerry Herman’s blessing.

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Alexandra Dow, Ashley Rubin, Chris Brand, Danny Durr, David Vogel, Erin Eloise, Hello Dolly, Idalmy Carcache, James Clow, Jason Edward Cook, Jerry Herman, Joey Lucherini, Kayley Stevens, Lee Roy Reams, Lewis J. Stadlen, Megan Sell, Meredith Bartmon, Michael Stewart, Michael Ursua, Molly Anne Ross, Randy Slovacek, Robert Wilday, Shannon Bates, Susan Powell, The Wick Theatre, Troy Stanley | Leave a comment

Stage Door Keeps Its Promises In Revival Of 1960’s Hit Musical

Broward Stage Door’s earnest intriguing revival of Promises, Promises embraces its up-to-the-moment pop score for 1968, a witty and insightful script, frenetic choreography that caught the zeitgeist of the time, and some deceptively subtle performances to become a wildly-popular hit just as the social fabric of the country was in transition.

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Ashley Rubin, Burt Bacharach, Elliot Peterson, Hal David, James Skiba, Jessica Brooke Sanford, Kayley Stevens, Kevin Black, Kevin Reilley, Meredith Bartmon, Michael Larsen, Michael Leeds, Neil Simon, Peter Librach, Promises Promises | Leave a comment