ASF" Blues in the Night"
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2w ago
It's all about the music on the closing weekend of Sheldon Epps's 1980 musical revue Blues in the Night in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's intimate Octagon Theatre. -- Directed by Ron OJ Parson, audiences are taken back to a run-down Chicago hotel c.1938, where three nameless women stay in their individual shabby rooms [scene design by Shaun Motley; costume design by Celeste Jennings] and share their experiences with the Blues through song. There is no linear story, very little dialogue, and only a smattering of interaction among them, but lots of contact with the audience. -- And ..read more
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Wetumpka Depot: "Monty Python's Spamalot"
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2w ago
For those lucky enough to have tickets for the final weekend of Monty Python's Spamalot [2004] at the Wetumpka Depot, you're in for a treat as director Kristy Meanor's energetic ensemble acting company and collaborative design and creative team continue their raucously irreverent musical journey following the excellent double-act of King Arthur [Scott Page] and his loyal horse Patsy [David Rowland] in their quest for the Holy Grail. "Lovingly ripped off from the motion picture 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'" [1975], fans of the film gleefully anticipate the rogues-gallery of Pythonesqu ..read more
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Pike Road: "Irving Berlin's White Christmas: the Musical"
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3M ago
Yet again, the Pike Road Theatre Company, under James Keith Posey's astute direction, has delivered a dazzling production that entertains and inspires: Irving Berlin's White Christmas: the Musical.  In its two-year history, the PRTC's five show main season, as well as many successful ventures into Theatre for Youth, the largely sold-out runs have involved and entertained countless Pike Road residents and citizens from across the River Region. What an accomplishment! -- But this could be the last production at the Pike Road Intermediate School. Check the PRTC website for updates. This time ..read more
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Wetumpka Depot: "Once Upon a Christmas"
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4M ago
The Wetumpka Depot is currently showcasing a new play for children by Jean Webb, inspired by the Kenneth Grahame novel The Wind in the Willows.  Ms. Webb's Once Upon a Christmas has all the familiar characters -- Rat, Badger, Mole, Toad, Otters, Weasels -- who join forces at Christmas to help some of them in distress. It seems that Mrs. Otter is missing, Mr. Otter is injured, the three Little Otters are thrust upon four bachelors to help them through the holidays, and the suspicious Weasels are on the loose. Director Kristy Meanor has two separate casts of actors at her disposal [I saw Ca ..read more
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Millbrook: "A Good Old-Fashioned Big Family Christmas"
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4M ago
Michael Snead's directing debut of Pat Cook's A Good Old-Fashioned Big Family Christmas got off to a good start at the Millbrook Community Theatre on Thursday night, entertaining its audience with a good-hearted, family-friendly Holiday-themed comedy. Played on a charming "living room" set enhanced by a new L.E.D. lighting system, the 1-hour and 40-minutes production is told in a series of short scenes that could flow better with fewer blackouts and the addition of music between them; and, as Mr. Snead develops his directing skills, he'll get a stronger sense of pace and staging dynamics. A 14 ..read more
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ASF: "A Christmas Carol"
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4M ago
In Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, director Rick Dildine delivers his intentionally family-friendly, humorous, music-filled, ensemble production to inaugurate the Holiday Season in the River Region. It is a delight to the eyes and ears of audiences through evocative sets and masterful projections by Edward T. Morris, enhanced by Jeff Behm's sophisticated lighting, and Kathleen Geldard's lovely period costumes. -- An on-stage instrumental quintet invites audience participation as they play and sing numerous countryfied holiday tunes as arranged b ..read more
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Pike Road: "Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical"
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5M ago
Impressive singing highlights the Pike Road Theatre Company's production of Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical. As directed by James Keith Posey, the 1990 Frank Wildhorn-Leslie Bricusse musical demands stamina from its acting company during the two-and-a-half-hour playing time, and has the audience cheering throughout. Part One: The Source and Legacy -- Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a Gothic "penny dreadful" novella titled Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886, in which an intelligent and well-liked Dr. Jekyll, curious about the duality of human nature, combined with his desire to destroy ..read more
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Cloverdale Playhouse: "The Laramie Project"
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5M ago
"If you write a play of this, do it right, say it correct" is the charge given to Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project on their departure from Laramie, Wyoming after one-and-a-half-years of conducting interviews with the town's residents following the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard. -- The end result is The Laramie Project [2000] now on stage at the Cloverdale Playhouse. And the Playhouse  "did it right"; they "said it correct". Matthew Shepard was a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, slight of build, seemingly well-liked; and he was targeted, severely beaten, pistol ..read more
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Millbrook: "She Loves Me"
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6M ago
With the world in turmoil, it's a pleasure to see a delightfully nostalgic love-story production of She Loves Me that is currently playing in Millbrook under the adept direction of Brady Walker. Based on Miklos Laszlo's story Parfumerie, and probably better known from the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner, this Bock-Harnick-Masteroff musical from 1963 recounts a familiar story centered on Amelia [Kaylee Baker] and Georg [Kaden Blackburn] who exchange love-letters to "Dear Friend" through a lonely-hearts club. Set in Mr. Maraczek's [Matthew Givens] parfumerie in 1934 Budapest, Amelia gets a ..read more
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WOBT: "Present Laughter"
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6M ago
From the late 17th Century on, comedy in Britain often is marked by its glittering wit spoken by sophisticated  characters whose many faults are willingly forgiven because additionally, they are attractive; like today, we frequently overlook the flaws and questionable morality of those people we admire because of some appealing trait, so long as they look good and speak well. Playwright Noel Coward was a prolific master of the comic form, and often wrote characters into his plays that he would perform. One of these is Present Laughter [1939], in which the central character is Garry Essend ..read more
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