Cameron Mackintosh’s (or is it Matthew Bourne’s?) Oliver! — now at London’s Gielgud Theatre — has the aesthetics of Tommy Kail’s Sweeney Todd.
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Choreous
I’m no scholar of antiquity, but my understanding of Greek tragedies is that they oscillate between character scenes and chorus scenes.
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Seaside Pub Song
When a musical is based on a known property, the powers-that-be seem to believe that adding songs is enough of a change to raise interest in a story that audiences are already familiar with.
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Trinicorn
Unicorn is a dramaturgical thought-experiment.
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Homage in the Sun
Befitting its subject, Retrograde stages a Raisin in the Sun moment.
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Let the Sunshine Out
Weather Girl positions the titular stereotype as a performance-art allegory for projecting culturally-popular femininity, and for society maintaining a cheery facade as the world approaches the climate brink.
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A Streetcar Named Almeida
Does London’s Almeida Theatre have a contract stipulation that each and every one of their transfers must retain the building’s natural backdrop?
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What We Went Through
Here are my favorite movies — and one show! — that focus primarily on depicting life during Covid:
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Miniatures
Casting can change the meaning of a play.
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Bodies Bodies Bodies
It’s been said that the bedrock of theatrical expression is the movement of bodies in space.
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