Summertime blues? Check. South Florida venues have it, along with summertime folk-rock, glam-rock, comedy-rock, classic rock, jazz/fusion, and modern rock and pop. As tourist season ends, locals get a chance to turn up the heat, especially at open-air venues such as Coral Sky Ampitheatre in West Palm Beach, Mizner Park Ampitheater in Boca Raton, and Bayfront Park … [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...]
Priscilla, queen of the costume parades
It is no intended slight of the high camp musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to note that its prime assets are its costumes, the wittiest, most eye-popping wardrobe you will probably ever see on a legitimate stage. Fortunately, designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, who won an Oscar for the over-the-top duds of the 1994 movie of Priscilla, had the assignment of dressing … [Read more...]