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Boleros for the Disenchanted (in English & Spanish) (0)

June 28, 2009 • Category: Current Shows, Randy Hardwick, Theatre Reviews

It recounts the story of a Puerto Rican couple – Flora (Elizabeth Ledo/Sandra Marquez) and Eusebio (Joe Minoso/René Rivera) who met on the island in 1953 and married the following year. It is a personal story told across years of marriage, but it is also the story of the suffering of all Puerto Ricans forced to flee their land in search of work and dignity.

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Theatre Etiquette for the 21st Century (0)

Turn off your pagers and/or cell phones BEFORE the show starts. And NO TEXT MESSAGING during the show. And DO NOT CHECK you VOICE MESSAGES and/or TEXT MESSAGES during the show. Maybe we need to do what some London theatre have started doing—making everyone check-in their cell phones upon entering the theatre.

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Up (0)

Up is art for art’s sake, a thing of beauty to be admired. It’s nice that it makes you think, but that is not its raison d’être.
Up is delicious – a simply beautiful show with a cast that is uniformly magnificent. Bravo!

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Camelot: In Concert (0)

The concert sings quite expertly, with Hearn actually singing Arthur’s numbers with deep emotions. The concert format allows the large orchestra to overwhelm us with the lush score while we still get a glimpse of the story and the interaction of the characters.

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A Trubute to the Black Crooners (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow) (0)

Kudos to Jackie Taylor and Rueben Echoles for casting such a fine collection of crooners! We enjoy the golden voices of the ‘old crooners’–Trinity P. Muedock, Donald Barnes and Magellen Watts and their children–Donald Manuel, Michael T. Bartlett and Rashawn Thompson.

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Follies (0)

Follies is a most worthy production featuring a large no-Equity cast each dedicated to producing musical theatre art with an eye on craft and showmanship. They succeed nicely under the detailed direction of Marlon Barden and the effective choreography from Robin Lehtman.

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