The first thing Clive Cholerton wants you to know is that the Caldwell Theatre is not folding. The Boca Raton playhouse has been in a financial bind ever since it took out a $6 million mortgage on its new theater in 2008. But it sees an end to its difficulties with an imminent filing for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy. “The decision has been made and that is what we’re … [Read more...]
Caldwell makes a virtue out of musical by bringing back ‘Vices’
Belying the proverb about opportunity only knocking once, here comes another chance to see the steamy, quirky, Carbonell-award-winning dance musical Vices: A Love Story, back at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, where it had its world premiere in the summer of 2009. Vices is a series of eclectic songs about obsessions and addictions, tied together by a pair of lithe, … [Read more...]
Caldwell’s ‘Follies’ another gift for Sondheim fans
For the third time in a year, the Caldwell Theatre has put the words and music of Stephen Sondheim onstage, emphasizing his intricate way with a song and his emotionally complex storytelling in its musical concert series. If the Boca Raton company’s current offering, 1971’s Follies, is not quite up to the delirious level of its Sunday in the Park With George or Into the … [Read more...]
Caldwell’s ‘Into the Woods’ concert comes off splendidly
“I wish …” They are the first two and last two words of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods, an audacious and whimsical shuffle of lesson-laden Grimm’s fairy tales. It has long been my wish that a South Florida theater company would take up the challenge of presenting some of Sondheim’s innovative musicals, even though they require large casts of vocally … [Read more...]
Caldwell stumbles with unfunny take on Jekyll and Hyde
After a string of recent successes, Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre has stumbled badly with its current production, Chemical Imbalance, a spoof of Victorian theater conventions in general and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde specifically. Artistic director Clive Cholerton’s introductory remarks make it clear that there is nothing serious going on in the show and its only reason for … [Read more...]
Caldwell to present concert version of Sondheim’s ‘Sunday’
In his few short months on the job as artistic director of the Caldwell Theatre Company, Clive Cholerton has learned a great deal about “the art of making art.” So it should come as no surprise that he says his favorite musical is Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park With George. The surprise is that he has found a way to bring to Palm … [Read more...]