BWW Review: MY FAIR LADY Gets Loving Revival at Georgetown Palace
by Frank Benge
- Apr 22, 2018
MY FAIR LADY is a 1956 musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The musical is the story of Eliza Doolittle (Martina Ohlhauser) a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins (Damon Brown), a phoneticist, in order to improve her station in life by passing as a lady. The original Broadway production was both a critical and popular success, setting the record for the longest run of any show up to that time. It has been revived multiple times, including the current production on Broadway and has been turned into a popular film. It won the 1957 Tony Award for Best Musical. MY FAIR LADY features one of musical theatre's greatest scores, including 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly?' 'The Rain in Spain,' 'I Could Have Danced All Night,' 'On the Street Where You Live,' and 'Get Me to the Church on Time.'
FAHRENHEIT 451 at Different Stages to Close this Weekend
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 29, 2016
Different Stages opens its 2016-2017 season with Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 is a gripping tale at once disturbing and poetic about a fireman, Guy Montag, whose job is to destroy all books by fire.
BWW Review: FAHRENHEIT 451 by Different Stages At The Vortex
by Frank Benge
- Nov 21, 2016
FAHRENHEIT 451 is a play based on the 1953 dystopian novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury. The novel is regarded as one of his best works. It presents a future society where books are outlawed and 'firemen' burn any that are found. The title comes from the temperature at which paper becomes combustible. There was a 1966 film adaptation of the novel and Bradbury himself developed it into this play in the late 70s. Bradbury has stated that he wrote it to address his concerns about the McCarthy era and the threat of book burning. In later years, he stated it was a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature. The story is set in an unspecified city at an unspecified time in the future somewhere after the year 1960.
Different Stages Presents FAHRENHEIT 451
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 4, 2016
Different Stages opens its 2016-2017 season with Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Set in the twenty-fourth century, Fahrenheit 451 is a gripping tale at once disturbing and poetic about a fireman, Guy Montag, whose job is to destroy all books by fire.
Different Stages Presents MURDER ON THE NILE, 4/13-5/5
by Harmony Wheeler
- Mar 30, 2012
Different Stages continues its 2011 - 2012 season with Murder on the Nile, one of Dame Agatha's most popular mysteries. Simon Mostyn has recently married the beautiful, wealthy Kay Ridgeway, having thrown over his former lover Jacqueline. The couple is on their honeymoon and is at present on a paddle steamer on the Nile. With them are Kay's guardian, and Jacqueline, who has been dogging their footsteps all through the honeymoon. Also on the boat are a rich, ill-tempered woman and her niece, a rather direct young man, a doctor who nurses a grudge against Kay's father, and Kay's maid. During the voyage? well, you'll just have to see what happens.
Different Stages Presents TOO MANY HUSBANDS at The Vortex, Opens 7/16
by Caryn Robbins
- Jul 7, 2011
Different Stages closes its 2010-2011 season with W. Somerset Maugham's comedy TOO MANY HUSBANDS. A fast and frivolous comedy, the plot focuses on Victoria, a delectably pretty but ruthlessly self-centered young woman whose husband, William, was reported killed three years earlier in World War I.
|
|