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Million Dollar Quartet

by The Staff January 16, 2013

Million Dollar Quartet, rolling into Proctors on Tuesday, is one of those so-called jukebox musicals—and what a jukebox. The Tony Award-winning Broadway smash imagines what happened at the legendary recording session at Sam Philips’ Sun ...

Proctors

Memphis

by The Staff April 11, 2012

Loosely based on the story of real-life DJ Dewey “Daddy-O” Phillips, Memphis, the hit musical coming to Proctors this week, brings to life the story of a young white man who becomes a popular radio personality ...

Proctors

Long Live Rock

by John Rodat July 14, 2011

Originally a double album of conceptually linked songs released by the Who in 1969, Tommy was the first music to be popularly designated a “rock opera.” Though some work in that vein had been done ...

Colonial Theatre

Mamma Mia!

by The Staff June 29, 2011

There are a number of reasons why Mamma Mia!—which opens this Tuesday (July 5) at Proctors—works so well. The plot has the sturdy romantic-comedy mechanics of an old Broadway show; the characters are outsized and ...

Proctors

A Natural

by B.A. Nilsson June 23, 2011

It’s a fully formed but imaginary universe that book writer Abe Burrows crafted when he adapted two Damon Runyon stories (and several ancillary characters) into one of the most successful musicals of 1950. Runyon’s genius ...

Barrington Stage Company

Hakuna Matata

by B.A. Nilsson March 10, 2011

Stage spectacle has become a maelstrom of lights and props, loud music and gimmicks, but the most compelling entertainment still needs humans—human figures and voices and conflicts. Which is why the mask-and-puppet imagery of The ...

Proctors

The Lion King

by The Staff February 16, 2011

Director Julie Taymor made Broadway history in 1997 when she became the first woman to win a Tony Award for direction of a musical. Her victory? The Lion King. Adapted from Disney’s animated film, the visually ...

Proctors

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