I Needed That: CCM’s Birthday Cabaret
The Sappy Critic started several years ago as a place for me to write about theatre. It has remained a blog (a fact that is disdainfully pointed out…
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Monday Matinee 5.14.18 – This Week in Cincinnati Theatre
As the season continues to wind down (and as we anticipate the annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival), today we’ll focus on Cincinnati Shakespeare’s final production of the spring and…
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REVIEW: The Theory of Relativity
This show has no right to be this good. It’s a young cast, a young director, and a fairly new musical. But THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY is a magical…
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CCM Freshman Showcase is a Hopeful Sign of the Times
Every year, the Freshman class of musical theatre students develops a showcase as a year-long project. They select the music, they choreograph the numbers, they write the monologues,…
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REVIEW: Transmigration 2018
The 10th Anniversary for TRANSMIGRATION at CCM featured a variety of theatrical experiences, including one of the most powerful and smart plays I’ve seen in some time. Every…
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REVIEW: Jesus Christ Superstar
UC-CCM’s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is a spectacle, as it should be. It’s spectacularly sung, spectacularly choreographed. It’s a visual feast and a delicious vocal buffet. I walked away…
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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: The Earth is Flat
THE EARTH IS FLAT by Todd Almond is this fall’s Studio Series production by the CCM Acting department. It was commissioned for last year’s inaugural PlayWright Conference; I…
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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: Hamlet
Now this is what I call a debut. Susan Felder, Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement at UC-CCM, makes her Cincinnati directing debut with the longest play in Shakespeare’s…
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