Last season at about this time, the Symphonia Boca Raton brought Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster David Kim to the conductor’s podium for an evening of Baroque showpieces, and in so doing, brought a new kind of energy to the orchestra’s profile. Kim was back again for a similar style program Saturday night at the Eissey Campus Theatre at Palm Beach State College in Palm … [Read more...]
Olson leads strong cast in Broward Stage Door’s ‘Gypsy’
By Dale King The musical Gypsy is a compendium of ultimates and ultimatums. It focuses on a quintessential stage mother who tries like crazy to squeeze stardom into her two daughters, yet she pitches a fit when the young ladies find fame and seem to leave her in the dust. The 1959 musical, based loosely on the memoirs of famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, and pulled together for … [Read more...]
‘Maps’ leads us to tiresome Hollywood hatred
It was just Sunday that Julianne Moore won a much-deserved Oscar for beautifully, elegantly portraying a woman navigating the slippery, debilitating reality of early-onset Alzheimer’s. Now, she’s back in theaters again in David Cronenberg’s blunt-force satire Maps to the Stars, where the tone is a wee bit different: We witness her making a putrid bowel movement, engaging in a … [Read more...]
Maltz leads PB County theaters with Carbonell nods
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre led all Palm Beach County professional theaters with 14 nominations for the 39th annual Carbonell Awards, recognizing production excellence throughout South Florida. Nine of those nominations were for the Jupiter company’s new look at the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The King and I. The other five were for its season opener, Larry Shue’s … [Read more...]
Adams classic leads challenging Firebird program
There are at this point only a relatively small number of 20th-century American compositions that have entered the repertory on any kind of permanent basis. But two of them were on an all-American program presented by the Firebird Chamber Orchestra on Thursday night at St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in Boca Raton. And the third piece on the program is attractive enough to … [Read more...]
Maltz Jupiter Theatre leads Carbonell nominations
If you have the impression that 2011 was a particularly good year for Palm Beach County’s professional theater, you are right. Or at least you agree with the judges -- full disclosure: that includes myself -- of the Carbonell Awards, now in its 36th season of recognizing excellence in South Florida stage productions. Of the 98 nominations announced on Monday, 43 came from … [Read more...]
‘Mormon’ leads Tony nominations with 14 nods
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s irreverent, yet surprisingly traditional musical comedy, The Book of Mormon, went into this morning’s announcement of Tony Award nominations as the prohibitive favorite to win the all-important Best Musical award. It emerged with 14 nominations, making it even more of a lock to clean up at the Tonys ceremony on Sunday, June 12, and -- at least … [Read more...]