SCHOOL OF ROCK (National tour at the Academy of Music): Amiable mediocrity
Most things are destined to be average, even musicals that have managed to stay on Broadway for a couple of years.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
We Come to Rock: Local SCHOOL OF ROCK star talks about the touring production
Doylestown native and Penn State grad Liam Fennecken is ready to rock and roll in the high octane musical SCHOOL OF ROCK.
The Voice Which Calls To Me: Abigail Mentzer returns to Philly with THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Abigail Mentzer makes her return to Philadelphia as a ballerina in the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera.
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Bristol Riverside Theatre): In a little river town a great but shopworn rock opera is reborn
I went in to the show a doubting Thomas a came out a believer.
SUNSET BOULEVARD (Media Theatre): Ann Crumb as Norma Desmond, the delusional diva
Few singers can do what Ann Crumb can do, namely to transform herself in such versatile ways that people follow her wherever she goes, whether she performs on Broadway or in Media. Crumb, a depowered female King Lear, dominated every scene of SUNSET BOULEVARD in her own dream castle.
THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (Montgomery Theater): A homage and a takeoff in song
Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart raise the stakes with their devilishly clever and cheekily smart send-up of prolific songsmiths Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS.
