BWW Reviews: How Village's LES MISERABLES Made Me Remember Why I Love This Show
The year was 1996, it was the second time "Les Miserables" was coming through town and I was finally going to see it live.
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The year was 1996, it was the second time "Les Miserables" was coming through town and I was finally going to see it live.
OK Broadway Producers, we need to have a chat.
It's not the happiest or most easily accessible of shows, which is probably why it's not often done.
Pass the cigars around; it's the birth of a brand new theatre company.
"You know we're going to talk about sex tonight, right?" Those are some of the first words spoken by Isabella Rossellini (with a devilish twinkle in her eye) after she walked onto stage the other night at the Moore Theatre for her "Green Porno" performance letting the audience know we were in for o
There are some aspects of life that most of us don't delve into.
Dear Readers, have you lost that innocence and exuberance of youth? Are you no longer fascinated by the wonder of flying boys, singing mermaids and maniacal pirates? Well then I have the cure for you.
OK, so I've seen it several times.
No, it's not "Sybil", just one 13 year old girl with a lot to say about the crazy people in her life.
Newborn theatre company Theatre22 has stumbled into the light of the world with its inaugural production of Lanford Wilson's post Vietnam War drama, "Fifth of July".
Do ya hear that playin'? Do ya know what's playin'? Why it's one of the best interpretations of a classic musical I've seen.
Any true Broadway Geek knows of the infamous flop that is "Carrie: The Musical".
Sir Alan Ayckbourn certainly knows how to bring rich and complex characters to life and then set them spinning to hilarious ends and his current production of "Sugar Daddies", making it's American Premiere at ACT, is no exception.
There are some classics you just don't mess with.
New Century Theatre Company's track record for putting on stunning shows remains brilliantly intact as they present another absolute winner with Enda Walsh's "The Walworth Farce".
If you're going to have a play espousing rhetoric on politics and the state of our Government let it have something new (or at least clever) to say, otherwise it's the same old stuff we've heard droning on for years.
(Sputter, gasp wheeze) There, I can breathe again.
Imagine you go to see a comedienne.
OK, so we're all sick of the trend of movies turned into musicals but, Dear Readers, just as movies have to keep remaking themselves, Broadway will keep culling from film vaults for new musicals.
We've all had those fleeting thoughts in our heads every now and again of doing something completely outrageous like blowing something up or offing someone just because we don't like their face.
Sometimes goofy is all you really need.
I must be honest here; Balagan Theatre putting on a production of Les Mis already has two hurdles to overcome before I even set foot in the door.
We don't live in Grover's Corners anymore and a lot has changed in the century since that time.
There's an old show business adage that if you give the audience a strong ending, they'll forgive most anything that came before.
It's a really good thing the air conditioning is working in the Seattle Center Armory because something has to cool the audience down after Sound Theatre Company's current production of "The Wild Party".
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