by Michele Markarian ‘Company’ – Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by George Furth. Directed by Spiro Veloudos. Presented by Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA, through October 9. “What song is the biggest clunker in ‘Company’”? I asked my husband on the drive over to see the Lyric Stage’s…
Category: Musicals
MARY POPPINS (University of Rhode Island )
Reviewed by Tony Annicone University of Rhode Island Theatre Department’s closing show of their season is “Mary Poppins.” The show is based on the P.L. Travers books 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 version opened…
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Rhode Island College Theatre)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Welcome to the wonderful world of Walt Disney and one of the first of his animated movie musicals to be brought to life as a musical on Broadway back on April 19, 1994. Based on the 1991 Disney movie, the play tells the story of the story of a spell cast on…
THE JUNGLE BOOK – Footlights Junior Division
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Footlights Junior Division’s current show is “The Jungle Book”Kids, adapted by from the Disney animated film and the works of Rudyard Kipling. The theatre is turned into an incredible jungle setting with terrific animal costumes by Johnny Cagno. Banished by the ferocious tiger, Shere Khan, a human boy called a man cub, Mowgli…
