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Hooray for Hollywood

by The Staff March 20, 2013

We’re suckers for a musical revue. That is not to say we don’t love book musicals. Of course we do: Broadway musical theater is one of America’s greatest artistic achievements of the last 100 or ...

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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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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 ...

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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

The Pleasure Is All Ours

by The Staff July 5, 2012

Looking for Me By and large the 1970s were a sinkhole for me in terms of movies I could latch onto. Oh sure, there were the classics, but in terms of finding anything depicting the trials, ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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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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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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Boogie On, Mumbai Cyborg

by John Rodat November 3, 2011

If you’re at all familiar with Bollywood—which, technically, comprises only those Indian studios producing Hindi-language films, though it is often used incorrectly to refer to all Indian cinema—you likely know of its eclecticism. Bollywood is ...

La Cage aux Folles

by The Staff October 20, 2011

When La Cage aux Folles first opened on Broadway, New York was still more than a quarter-century from realizing the fight for marriage equality. Most places the national tour of the Tony Award-winning 2010 revival ...

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Making Frankenstein Sing

by Ann Morrow September 8, 2011

“I was taken in by the powerful music. I love the intensity of emotion that comes with the music; the signature song, ‘The Coming of the Dawn,’ is very beautiful.” Stage director Tim Orcutt is ...

RPI Playhouse

Summer Lovin’

by John Rodat August 11, 2011

The musical Grease was, in its original inception, a gritty drama about working-class teens in 1950s Chicago. But, according to playwright Jim Jacobs, he was told that for the play to be successful he needed ...

Mac-Haydn Theatre

West Side Story

by The Staff August 10, 2011

“From the first note to the final breath, West Side Story soars as the greatest love story of all time,” says Proctors, where the national tour of the classic musical opens this week. While Willy ...

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The Game

by The Staff August 10, 2011

When Choderlos de Laclos penned Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1782, he couldn’t possibly have imagined what the future held for his scandalous epistolary novel of sexual manipulation, revenge, betrayal and seduction in the pre-revolutionary French ...

Barrington Stage Company

Girls Night: The Musical

by The Staff April 20, 2011

The ultimate jukebox musical is back: “Follow five friends as they relive their past, celebrate their present and look to the future on a wild and hilarious karaoke night out—and you’ll recognize every one of ...

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