BWW Review: Playhouse Plays MATCHMAKER
by Joseph Baker
- Oct 5, 2015
Interestingly, Playhouse on the Square has opted to produce Thornton Wilder's THE MATCHMAKER rather than HELLO, DOLLY, the legendary musical that it spawned - and therein lies both the blessing and the curse: There are so many lines here that served as song cues that the specter of Jerry Herman's 'ear-candied' score keeps hovering over the play. To add to the dilemma, the ever-arranging 'matchmaker' herself is none other than that talented musical performer Ann Sharp (surprisingly making her theatre debut at Playhouse): Because she doesn't have the opportunity to use that particular talent, and because those darned Herman songs keep popping up in the mind, THE MATCHMAKER might prove frustrating for those familiar with its melodic offspring. That's too bad, as Herman's score is rather like some pushy first grader who breaks in line; without it, the audience is left with . . . a fine romantic comedy, filled with mistaken identities and matches and mismatches - and more than just a touch of Wilder's warm , incisive writing.
BWW Review: THE MARTIAN is an Interplanetary Homeric Epic
by Matt Tamanini
- Oct 2, 2015
When you were a little kid, did you ever get separated from your parents in the mall or grocery store? Can you remember how the all-consuming terror of being abandoned to fend for yourself began in your chest and then crept out until it could be felt in every extremity in your body, and you became nothing more than an inconsolable blob of sweat and tears? Now imagine that instead of the cereal aisle, you were left on Mars; and instead of in the pharmacy, your parents were 140 million miles away, and couldn't come back to pick you up for four years. On second thought, don't imagine that, you'll just start crying again. That is essentially the premise behind the new Matt Damon movie THE MARTIAN, which opens nationwide in 2D and 3D theaters today, after being exclusively on IMAX screens last weekend.
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