Theater: You’ve already seen Fiddler on the Roof more times than you can recall, right? And if you’re like me, you love the show, but wish that its original director-choreographer, the late Jerome Robbins, would loosen the reins and allow other stagings. If so, then the Maltz Jupiter Theatre has a production you should not miss. Marcia Milgrom Dodge, whose Hello, Dolly! and The … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: ‘The Lion in Winter,’ ‘Annie’
Two solid productions have arrived for the holidays, each prominently featuring the Christmas season in its plot. The Lion in Winter is salted with plenty of humor and (spoiler alert!) none of the dysfunctional Plantagenets assembled for a Christmas reunion to decide who will inherit the crown from aging King Henry II gives his life during the cutthroat war of words. So James … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: Dazzling ‘Music Man’; classic Sommers; charming ‘[title]’
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Chances are your first impression of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man is not of the dancing. Unless you see the new hyper-kinetic production at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. It is not that director Mark Martino and choreographer Shea Sullivan ― the Carbonell Award-winning duo that conjured up a tap-happy Crazy for You two seasons back ― have put some conceptual overlay on … [Read more...]