Theater: The musicals of Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel) are usually over the top with bombast and power anthems, but with Bonnie & Clyde, he seems to have learned how to tailor his music to fit the situation and characters. Of course, the story revolves around a pair of lovestruck petty bank robbers who become folk heroes during the Depression, played … [Read more...]
‘Houdini’: Impressive sleight-of-hand, but drama’s slight, too
The magic of theater and magic as theater are at the core of an entertaining, if insubstantial, biodrama, Death and Harry Houdini, created and performed by Chicago’s House Theatre, currently at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Houdini, the renowned illusionist and escape artist of the early 20th century, became obsessed with the spirit world in the hope of pulling off his … [Read more...]