Review: COMPANY at Connor Palace
by Roy Berko - May 03, 2024
What did our critic think of COMPANY at Connor Palace? Stephen Sondheim is generally considered the most important composer/lyricist of the 20th century American musical theater. Many consider him to be the person who reinvented the genre.
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Review: ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE at Great Lakes Theater
by Roy Berko - April 29, 2024
Juke box musicals are stage theatrical presentations in which a majority of the compositions were written before the presentation was conceived, rather than being original music conceived for that show. They tend to be long on songs and short on a well-conceived plot.
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Review: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at GREAT LAKES THEATER
by Roy Berko - March 25, 2024
Sir John Falstaff is at it again! Yes, the chubby delightful bumbler, who was in the Bard’s HENRY IV, Parts 1 and 2, is now lighting up the stage in Great Lakes Theater’s THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, thanks to Elizabeth I. The Queen was so infatuated with the character that, according to rumor, she...
Review: ORDINARY DAYS at BWU Musical Theatre Program
by Roy Berko - March 19, 2024
What did our critic think of ORDINARY DAYS at BWU Musical Theatre Program In Collaboration With Playhouse Square/Cleveland? Adam Gwon, who wrote the music and lyrics for ORDINARY DAYS, which recently finished its run as part of the Playhouse Square/Baldwin Wallace annual collaboration, was in atten...