Rumble on the Mountain
You don’t usually expect to find an inner-city gang war atop a woodsy mountain.
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Let Them Entertain You
CCMT’s Gypsy shows why it’s a classic.
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The Best of All Possible Musicals
Leonard Bernstein’s operetta of Candide clinging to optimism in the face of countless horrors has a troubled history of its own.
Blood Red, White and Blue
The presidential debates are upon us, Election Day is just a few weeks away, and two local theater companies are getting into the spirit of the thing by staging gleefully perverse musicals about the U.S. presidency.
Assassin Nation
That Stephen Sondheim has picked some perverse subjects for his musicals shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone, given that one of his most beloved classics concerns a certain serial-killing barber who provides the secret ingredient for his neighbor’s meat pie shop. But a musical about the various people who have killed or attempted to kill the President of the United States from John Wilkes Booth down to John Hinckley Jr.? Now that’s really pushing the boundaries of good taste.
