Reviewed by Tony Annicone Welcome to the French Riviera in the 1980’s and the most glittering and notorious nightclub there is “La Cage Aux Folles” which is the Company Theatre’s first show of their 40th season and tackle this 1983 hit Jerry Herman musical. It won six Tony Awards for the original Broadway…
Category: Musicals
Hanover Theatre Delivers an Exuberant ‘JERSEY BOYS’
Reviewed by Tony Annicone The latest National Tour musical at the historic Hanover Theatre is the Tony Award winning musical “Jersey Boys”, about the lives and career of the pre-boomer pop group, The Four Seasons. The show is set to a dozen of classic rock tunes by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe. Writers Marshall Brickman…
A Winning and Entertaining Beauty and the Beast at Wheelock
By Michele Markarian Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Music by Alan Mencken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Book by Linda Woolverton. Directed by Jane Staab. Choreography by Laurel Conrad; Musical Direction by Steven Bergman. Presented by Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA, through March 4. Belle (the appealing Justine “Icy” Moral)…
A CHORUS LINE – Stadium Theatre (Woonsocket, RI)
A CHORUS LINE Reviewed by Tony Annicone The current show at the Stadium Theatre is “A Chorus Line”, the 1976 winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Book and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is a musical based on the lives and experiences of Broadway dancers. Original director/choreographer Michael Bennett wanted to…
