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Catharsis, Inc.

by B.A. Nilsson May 1, 2013

I am the only musical theater fan in the world who has not been exposed to any form of the phenomenon that is Les Miz. The sprawling English-language musical version of the even-more-sprawling Victor Hugo ...

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Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody

by The Staff May 1, 2013

After a decade or so of the biggest publishing phenomenon revolving around teenage wizards, it’s only fair that an adult-oriented trilogy—ahem, sex, ahem, BDSM—should take the pop-literary world by storm. And it was only a ...

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Get Up and Dance!

by B.A. Nilsson March 13, 2013

That I had no interest in seeing this is an embarrassing reminder of the ever-narrowing sensibility to which middle-class white guys succumb as middle age takes over. But everything else broadcast from London’s National Theatre when ...

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Fela!

by The Staff March 6, 2013

From Off-Broadway to Broadway to stages around the world, this Tony-winning musical celebration of the great Nigerian musician Fela Kuti has been a sensation since its 2009 debut. And, now, a road-company version rolls into ...

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Spring Arts Preview

by The Staff February 28, 2013

Pop Music Bearsville Theatre 291 Tinker St., Woodstock, (845) 679-446. March 8: Adam Ezra Group. March 9: Booker T. March 10: Frack Action Benefit featuring Natalie Merchant, John Medeski, Marco Benevento, Tracy Bonham, Jack DeJohnette, Amy Helm, Bethany ...

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All For Show

by B.A. Nilsson February 20, 2013

Somewhere in the Australian outback—in the New South Wales town of Broken Hill, to be exact—the titular bus, stalled by clogged fuel lines, has been spray-painted with a hateful message. No worries: Adam (Bryan West) ...

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American Idiot

by The Staff January 31, 2013

This Broadway musical hit—full title, Green Day’s American Idiot—is based on the Cali punk rockers’ multi-million selling album of the same name, and it’s coming to Proctors for a three-night run beginning Tuesday. Follow the ...

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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 ...

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Epic

by Ann Morrow January 10, 2013

It’s not the complete Broadway musical nor is it meant to be, though it has most of the songs (slightly shortened) and comes admirably close to capturing its heartbreaking grandeur. What director Tom Hooper accomplishes ...

Little Shop of Horrors

by The Staff December 6, 2012

As the song goes, from small things big things one day come. In the early 1980s, Little Shop of Horrors, a witty and typically microbudgeted comedy-horror film by Roger Corman, was transformed into a smash ...

Schenectady Light Opera Company

A Tale of Two Cities

by Ann Morrow October 4, 2012

The two of them created the Two of Us Productions so they could perform together. Stephen Sanborn is a director and musician, and his wife, Constance Lopez, is an actress and choreographer. Married in 1997, ...

Hudson High School

Brigadoon

by The Staff June 21, 2012

When Brigadoon originally opened on Broadway, The New York Times opined that “all the arts of the theatre have been woven into a singing pattern of enchantment.” Enchantment is certainly the goal of Chatham’s Mac-Haydn Theatre, ...

Mac-Haydn Theatre

Jukebox Zero

by Ann Morrow June 20, 2012

Rock of Ages, the Tony-nominated musical, is a saccharine valentine to big dumb loud rock music. Rock of Ages, the movie adapted from the Broadway musical, is the unintentional death knell to that music—known at ...

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 ...

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Young Frankenstein

by The Staff April 4, 2012

Adapted from Mel Brooks’ 1974 film classic, Young Frankenstein, the musical, follows the grandson of the original monster-maker as he returns to Transylvania Heights and goes native. Settling into the family ruins, Dr. “Frankensteen” embraces ...

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Sunset Boulevard

by The Staff April 4, 2012

“With One Look” is one of the lushly orchestrated songs from Sunset Boulevard, the 1994 stage adaptation (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber) of the classic Billy Wilder-Gloria Swanson 1950 movie. And one look should suffice ...

Cohoes Music Hall

Artists and Aliens

by B.A. Nilsson March 29, 2012

If, like me, you’re an insomniac, and/or you enjoy the early antemeridian hours, you’ve tuned in to the radio program Coast to Coast AM. Which means you’ve heard the callers, the people phoning in from ...

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Big Men in Town

by B.A. Nilsson March 7, 2012

Frankie Valli’s Four Seasons were one of the few groups who withstood the seismic blast the Beatles wrought upon pop music in 1964. With No. 1 hits before, during, and after the height of the ...

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Jersey Boys

by The Staff February 23, 2012

This smash musical hit is still packing them in on Broadway, but you can see Jersey Boys right here in the Capital Region beginning Tuesday (Feb. 28) at Proctors for a three-week run. The rags-to-riches story ...

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Stomp

by The Staff February 16, 2012

The rhythms of the street—from banging garbage cans to boot heels clacking on concrete—are transformed onstage into a provocative, sophisticated, and utterly unique theatrical experience. Known for a mesmerizing “light show” created with Zippo lighters, ...

Palace Theatre

Blast!

by The Staff February 16, 2012

Blast! the Emmy and Tony Award-winning show, has delighted audiences around the world, and now comes to the mainstage at Proctors this Saturday. Paying tribute to popularity of marching bands, color guards, and drum and bugle ...

A Real Pisser

by John Rodat February 9, 2012

The musical Urinetown is a curious blend of earnest social commentary and ironic self-awareness. On the one hand, it scolds (if it doesn’t quite skewer) capitalistic-monopolistic command over essential resources; on the other, it satirizes ...

Shrek The Musical

by The Staff January 19, 2012

Shrek, the hit movie from DreamWorks Animation, turned the fairy tale universe upside down. The hero wasn’t a handsome prince, but an odd-smelling, swamp-dwelling green ogre with a strange accent and an even weirder best ...

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Swing!

by The Staff July 20, 2011

Mac-Haydn Theatre suffered a devastating fire in their cast house last week, but true to their dramatic mission, they are determined that “the show must go on.” And go on it shall. Swing! the fifth production ...

Mac-Haydn Theatre

Carousel

by The Staff May 12, 2011

At the end of that recently concluded epoch, Time magazine dubbed this show the “musical of the 20th century.” Beginning tomorrow (Friday) night, Schenectady Light Opera Company will attempt to convince you that Rodgers and ...

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