With today's Broadway dominated by revivals and adaptations, where do you have to go to see a show you haven't already seen on the silver screen? The answer, it appears, is Tennessee. Memphis: The Musical, the 2010 Tony Award winner concludes Fairwinds' 2012/2013 Orlando Broadway Across America season with a weeklong stand at the...
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At last night’s opening of La Cage Aux Folles, the final touring production in the current Fairwinds Broadway Across America season, I saw something unusual — a significant number of prime empty seats at the Bob Carr. Was Orlando’s theater community still nursing their post-Fringe hangovers, burnt out on GLBT-themed shows? Or is the...
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Tony Blair and other Brits are up in arms over Meryl Streep’s “unkind” portrayal of Margaret Thatcher with Alzheimer’s. I hope those Tories haven’t seen the West End hit Billy Elliot, whose Broadway tour opened at Orlando’s Bob Carr last night. One of the best moments in the show (based on the 2000 Universal...
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Tonight, the hit musical Billy Elliot opens at the Bob Carr as one of the centerpieces of the current 2011/2012 Fairwinds Broadway Across America season. There are still several shows left before the season ends, but that doesn’t mean it’s too soon to start looking for ward to 2012/2013. At downtown’s Abbey Theater last...
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You spend your life trying to build a loving, stable home for your offspring. Then one day your adolescent announces that they’ve found the love of their life, and are bringing them and their parents home for dinner. But instead of basking in the parental genius that got them to this point, your brat...
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Here we go again. Another beloved big-screen comedy turned Broadway musical has made its way to Orlando’s Bob Carr. Just like Monty Python’s Spamalot, this one is another scatalogical spoof of medieval fantasy icons. Just like Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein, this one stars a not-so-jolly green giant, and was booted off Broadway far sooner...
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On paper, Rock of Ages (now playing the Bob Carr as part of Farwinds’ Broadway Across America tour) encapsulates everything I despise about the modern Broadway musical. It’s yet another “jukebox” show cobbled together from a couple dozen unrelated “hair metal” radio hits of the Reagan era, a pop-music period I assiduously avoided...
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