Tag Archives: Melissa Boher Jacobson

The Musical Rags at The Plaza Theatre Is In Need Of Alteration

It is wonderful to see creativity in approaching a work that isn’t usually staged; the bad news is, when it doesn’t come together, all of the inventiveness is lost. Such is the case with The Plaza Theatre’s mounting of Rags.

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REVIEW: You Made Me Love You Will Enchant Senior Patrons

The Plaza’s cabaret revue You Made Me Love You – a celebration of the music made popular by Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice – is comforting soul food for The Greatest Generation, delivered in a creamy concoction poured by a trio of smooth and sincere singers.

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Plaza Theatre’s Irving Berlin Songbook Will Please The Greatest Generation

In Irving Berlin Salutes America at The Plaza Theatre, four capable performers plus the pianist/ arranger delivered the musical equivalent of a familiar old down comforter and a hot toddy for a nightcap. There was nothing electrifying, no fresh insights for those born after World War II, just an unabashedly pleasant, entertaining evening and that’s what the audience wanted.

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