“One good thing, I must say, though, about Trump, [is] he has broken down certain norms we’ve lived with for a long time and didn’t really make sense, like extramarital affairs. I was arguing about that in the Clinton days. It doesn’t really matter. That’s private. They used to say, ‘If he cheats on his wife, is he going to cheat on his country?’ No! You can cheat on your wife … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2018
‘Steel Magnolias’: Definitely not a pity party
Maltz Jupiter Theatre audiences have usually seen director Marcia Milgrom Dodge’s innovative work on musicals (The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof), but she jumped at the opportunity to stage Robert Harling’s tragicomic Steel Magnolias, about a handful of Southern women who gather each Saturday at a makeshift beauty salon. While fueled by comedy, their mettle is tested when the … [Read more...]
Boca’s own Rachel Bay Jones enjoying a career on the rise
Boca Raton-raised Rachel Bay Jones, a 2017 Tony and Grammy Award winner for her featured role as Heidi Hansen, mother of a teenage son whose social media lie goes viral, in the smash hit musical Dear Evan Hansen, had long been ambivalent about forging a theater career in New York. “I’m a Florida girl. I love nature, I love being out in the sunshine. Living in a gray city … [Read more...]
Big Medizen: All this, and ‘The Last Waltz,’ too
As a veteran area singer, guitarist and songwriter, Boynton Beach-based Jerry Leeman has learned the secrets that are mostly unique to South Florida musical success. He has secondary income, especially important during non-seasonal months when paying jobs tend to fade here, as a yoga instructor. He plays acoustic guitar, which helps in the era of local volume restrictions. … [Read more...]
Wick’s ‘Pirates of Penzance’ comes together in winning topsy-turvy style
The year was 1980, when director Wilfred Leach and choreographer Graciela Daniele took the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance and gave it a comic, anything-for-a-laugh spin, captivating audiences in Central Park and later on Broadway. Surely the Wick Theatre’s Norb Joerder was taking notes, for he has recreated that Hellzapoppin’-style production, right … [Read more...]
David Kapp: The cut-and-paste life, at Ann Norton
Paint some sheets of paper. Grab a pair of scissors. Arrange the colorful strips. What do you get? A day in the life of a New Yorker – or anyone residing in a metropolis for that matter. Paper cutouts have been masterfully arranged to bring forward the dynamic pace of city life in a new exhibit featuring vehicles caught in traffic, pedestrians rushing down steps, and busy … [Read more...]
Entr’acte does well by newer take on ‘Addams Family’
By Dale King The Addams Family has been around for just over 80 years, whether featured in single-panel cartoons by New Yorker artist Charles Addams, on television, in film, animated or on Broadway. Even folks not born when the TV series with John Astin and Carolyn Jones was broadcast from 1964-66 are likely to recognize the iconic theme – da-da-da-dum, snap, snap. Even … [Read more...]
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ pedestrian — but it will rock you
Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer’s biopic of Freddie Mercury, is nothing if not a linear recitation of events. The best of Queen’s music approached poetry, but Singer’s film sits comfortably as prose, occasionally the stilted kind. Just look at the first scene after its credit sequence: The young Freddie (Rami Malek), then known by his birth name Farrokh (Bulsara), is one of … [Read more...]
‘Downton Abbey’ settles in at CityPlace for the season
For Anglophiles and fans of the PBS series Downton Abbey, wait no longer – the characters, the costumes, the Old World glamour and melodrama are arriving in South Florida in time for season. Just off a successful New York City run, NBCUniversal International Studios, along with Imagine Exhibitions, is bringing Downton Abbey: The Exhibition to CityPlace in West Palm Beach, … [Read more...]