Tag Archives: Broadway Across America
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.
An Unabashedly Heart-Warming Revival Provides Fine Debut For Davie’s Issie Swickle As Annie
Why see Annie yet once again? First is director Martin Charnin has banished the saccharine overkill and played the remaining cuteness and heart-tugging moments against a grimy, downtrodden Depression that should resonate today. Second, savor the national bow of Davie’s Issie Swickle as she nails the title role with thechops of someone a lot older than her nine years.
Once Is Touching Bittersweet Love Song Of Joy And Sorrow
A yearning so palpable it almost becomes corporeal and a heartache without a shred of self-pity pour unapologetically from the stage in the legitimately affecting musical Once touring through Miami this week only. The tears and smiles are honestly earned in this bittersweet romance leavened with the humor that only chastened challenged souls can muster.
Elf The Musical Is Sweeter Family Fare Than The Film
If you’re suffering from the holiday blues, Elf isn’t going to pull you out of it. But if you can pry open your sugar-clogged aorta a smidge, this sweet peppy musical may generate a warm afterglow as Santa’s sleigh twinkles out of sight. But the tone is different than the 2003 film whose pre-sold title and basic premise the producers hope to cash in on.
Sacrilegious And Sweet, The Book Of Mormon Is Both Hilarious And Profane
Hallelujah, children! We are delivered from the bondage of political correctness, the oppression of reactionary repression and the tyranny of the status quo. Raise up your voice and praise the bringer of these blessings — the national tour at the Broward Center of the Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon.
The Gleefully Irreverent Romp The Book Of Mormon Opens This Week At Broward Center
Aggressively, gleefully and literally irreverent, with the most profane lyric about the Almighty ever heard in a Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon is the most improbable smash since a prequel to The Wizard of Oz premiered a decade ago. So it’s not odd that the national tour opening Tuesday at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts is one of the most popular tickets in the Broadway Across America season.
John O’Hurley Comes “Home” To Broward With Bway Across Fort Lauderdale’s Road Show Chicago
Yes, he’s tall with tanned good looks, a shock silvery white hair and a smile made for a toothpaste commercial, but you could zip John O’Hurley into an opaque body bag and still recognize him by that Voice.
Florida’s 2013-2014 Season Champions New & Newish Works
Encouraging trends emerge while poking among the entrails of the new season schedules for South Florida theater. Among them: an emphasis on new and newer works as producers and artistic directors try to seduce younger audiences, meaning people under 70.
War Horse Remains Thrilling Theater On Tour But Has Lost A Bit Of The Original Magic
War Horse is cherished by many of us who saw it at Lincoln Center as one
of the most brilliantly executed pieces of theater we have seen. Certainly, audiences continue to be thrilled by the geniuses who designed, built and now endow breath nightly into the larger-than-life puppets that nearly transmute into flesh-and-bone horses. And the creatures are only one element among superbly conceived stagecraft.. But it’s hard to shake the heretical truth that the extra sense of transcendence we felt in New York wasn’t there on the opening night of this two-week run.
Powerful, Fresh Reimagining Of Les Miz Is Ready For Broadway
This Broadway Across America edition of Les Miserables is not some cynical attempt to wring just one more quart of milk from the cash cow. Instead, this is a legitimate revival in the deepest sense of the word that is as vibrant, passionate and new-born as a world premiere.
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