Reviewed by Tony Annicone The second musical of North Shore Music Theatre’s 62nd season is Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” which first opened on Broadway on April 19, 1994. It closed on July 29, 2007 and ran 5,461 performances. Based on the 1991 animated Disney movie, the show tells the story of a spell cast…
Category: Musicals
Reagle Delivers Terrific “Showboat”
Reviewed by Tony Annicone The second show of Reagle Music Theatre’s 49th summer season is the Goodspeed Musicals version of “Showboat” which combined the talents of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. The original version opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 27, 1927 and ran for 572 performances. Kern and Hammerstein felt that the Broadway…
GREASE at Ivoryton Playhouse
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Ivoryton Playhouse’s current musical is “Grease.” It opened off Broadway on February 14, 1972 and ran for 128 performances before moving to Broadway to run for a record breaking 3,388 performances, closing April 11, 1980. It was made into a very successful 1978 movie version starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. The…
MARY POPPINS (Marblehead Little Theatre)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Welcome to the World of Walt Disney at Marblehead Little Theatre’s summer show, “Mary Poppins.” The show is based on the books by P.L. Travers and the 1964 movie starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. It shows anything can and will happen at #17 Cherry Hill Lane. The Broadway…
