Category: Musicals
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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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Escape to Margaritaville at LTVB is a Romp from Start to Finish
In the days leading up to seeing Escape to Margaritaville at the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach (LTVB), I kept accidentally calling it Escape from Margaritaville when mentioning it to my wife, which sounds more like a horror show where something goes terribly wrong on Jimmy Buffett’s cruise ship, the shakers of salt are overaggressive…
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Urinetown at LTN is a privilege to see
Urinetown the Musical, performed at the Little Theatre of Norfolk (LTN), was the first play I saw for the 2023-2024 season of community theater shows in Hampton Roads, and it did not disappoint. Urinetown the Musical is about a town in which the water supply has dried up, and the government has partnered with a…
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