Category: Musicals
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Roūge’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” – a Perfectly Punk Rock Way to Celebrate Pride Month
Photo courtesy of J. Stubbs Photography (https://jstubbsphotographyvb.com/) *Note: As per the performance eligibility requirements laid out here, this production is not up for HRACT Award consideration.* In our typical fashion, we walked into 37th and Zen to see “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” totally blind to the plot and having never been to the venue. …
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LTN’s “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” Closes out the 2023-2024 Season with a Bang
On Friday night, we made it to our final eligible performance for the season – “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” at the Little Theatre of Norfolk. Walking into the theater, we were greeted with a very classy looking curtain, hanging from what appeared to be a wooden frame, specially carved with some suspicious…
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The Purgatory of a Dim Bar Brightens the Stage at Zeiders American Dream Theater in “Rathskeller: A Musical Elixir”
*Note: As per the performance eligibility requirements as laid out here, this musical is not up for HRACT Award consideration, as Zeiders American Dream Theater is a professional theater. As the lights crackle on above the Main Stage of Zeiders American Dream Theater, the audience, along with our protagonist John Casey, is suddenly thrust into…
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The Hills are Alive at Smithfield Little Theatre
As we drove out to Smithfield Little Theatre, my wife and I were nervous. We knew that, while “The Sound of Music” is one of our favorite musicals, it is not exactly an easy show to put on, especially for community theater. We knew that (1) you need multiple strong adult singers to hold down…
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A Failing Flower Shop, a Sadistic Dentist, a Strange and Unusual Plant, and a Neighborhood’s Dreams Add Up to a Wonderful “Little Shop of Horrors” at Williamsburg Players
“Little Shop of Horrors” is one of my all-time favorite musicals, and so I was incredibly excited around this time last year when Williamsburg Players announced they’d be putting it on. What I didn’t realize at the time was that its run would overlap with the solar eclipse happening on Monday – a celestial event…
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Brighten Up a Dreary Late Winter Day by Going on a “First Date” at Peninsula Community Theatre
A light drizzle dampened our shoes but couldn’t dampen our spirits as we walked through Hilton Village in Newport News to go to the opening night of “First Date” at Peninsula Community Theatre. We were hoping for a light-hearted evening of fun, watching a first date unfold in front of our eyes – and we…
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“I’m Here” for “The Color Purple” at Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center
On Saturday in the early afternoon, we made the trip over to the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center in Newport News for their only eligible community theater performance this year, “The Color Purple”. As our readership probably knows at this point, our favorite way to go into shows is to be blind as to what the…
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You’d be “Foolish to Think” about missing LTVB’s rendition of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
“Love AND murder? What could go wrong?” my wife asked as we pulled up to the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach on Friday, November 17 to see the opening night of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Our hopes only heightened as we flipped through the program and discovered that this was going to…
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Lights, Camera, Action! Mack & Mabel at Williamsburg Players tells the (sort of) true love story of two silent film giants
Being too excited to wait, on Friday afternoon, we moved our tickets up a day to see Williamsburg Players’ opening night performance of Mack & Mabel! This is a musical set at the time when movies were becoming talkies, and our leading man, movie director Mack Sennett, thinks the new-fangled talkies are just a fad. …
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The Prom at PCT: An Emotional Whirlwind of a Musical
Since my wife and I generally will see any play or musical that our local community theaters here in Hampton Roads put on, we sometimes like to go in totally blind to knowing anything about the play other than the title. So, when we walked into The Prom at Peninsula Community Theatre (PCT), we thought…
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