Having just completed her fourth season producing live theater at the playhouse that bears her name, Marilynn Wick takes a brief pause in her typical 10-to-14-hour workday to survey what she has built in Boca Raton, on the site of the defunct Caldwell Theatre. An entrepreneur her whole life, she knows the odds of The Wick Theatre and Costume Museum succeeding were high. … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2017
Heart’s Ann Wilson brings solo show to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Pierce
Ann Wilson’s soaring soprano was one of the voices that defined rock music through the 1970s, as her Seattle-spawned band Heart pre-dated that city’s heralded grunge movement by nearly two decades. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, Heart’s ’70s hits included “Crazy On You,?” “Magic Man,” “Barracuda,” “Heartless,” “Dog & Butterfly,” and “Straight On,” … [Read more...]
On Broadway, Part 3: Plays and Off-Broadway
All productions of Stephen Sondheim’s masterwork, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, since the original 1979 version set inside a vast industrial warehouse have been downscaled compromises. Still, there are advantages to intimacy and proximity, particularly when the audience is nose-to-nose with that iconic vengeful serial killer born of the old British penny … [Read more...]
On Broadway, Part 2: More musicals
Just because there were a lot of musicals this season on Broadway does not mean they were all on sufficient quality. Consider the following, a star-driven disappointment, a couple of anemic film adaptations and an impressive revival: War Paint – Stardom is a double-edged commodity. It can drive ticket sales as theatergoers clamor to see such bona fide divas as Patti LuPone … [Read more...]
On Broadway, Part I: Current must-see musicals
In a busy Broadway season, particularly for musicals, here are some of the best new works vying for attention in a crowded field: Dear Evan Hansen – Evan Hansen, the eponymous teen of a fresh and startlingly original new musical, is an awkward misfit, all but invisible to his fellow high school students. So he would seem an unlikely subject on which to base a musical, a … [Read more...]