REVIEW: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Long before HAMILTON became a Broadway phenomenon, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON set a story of early American history to modern music. It’s rock score, absurdist humor, and several…
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REVIEW: Million Dollar Quartet
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, full of crowd-pleasing music opened at the Playhouse last Thursday. It will run until Sunday, February 18th. Fans of the music will likely get a…
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REVIEW: Waitress
I’m torn; on one hand, I really liked WAITRESS as a musical. It’s structured well, it’s got complicated characters, tricky moral problems, and an interesting score. On the…
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REVIEW: A Christmas Story – The Musical!
Talk about a crowd-pleaser. A CHRISTMAS STORY – THE MUSICAL, which has a week-long run at the Aronoff Center, brought out the masses who reacted to literally every…
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REVIEW: Finding Neverland
I know this may surprise some of my more sophisticated readers, but FINDING NEVERLAND is now probably in my top five favorite musicals of all time. It might…
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REVIEW: Seussical
I love magic, I always have. First, the shock and awe of seeing the impossible performed followed by a natural curiosity about how the trick is done…
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REVIEW: The Full Monty
When done right, THE FULL MONTY is a really good musical. It’s bawdy but not offensive, and provides opportunity for many tender moments to balance out the laughs….
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FRINGE REVIEW: Balls of Yarns
The Cincinnati Fringe Festival is an opportunity for local artists to show off their original work. It’s also a venue for out-of-towners to bring their more polished pieces…
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I’m Feeling Fringe-y
I’m staring out my picturesque window at the downtown cityscape of Cincinnati, thinking about the next two weeks and how much time I’m going to spend on the…
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REVIEW: Beautiful
This is what MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL should have been. Carole King’s story, humbly told in BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING STORY, is one of sweet success, raw talent,…
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