When the national touring production of The Wizard of Oz arrives at the Johnny Mercer Theatre March 2, Cassie Okenka will have walked down the Yellow Brick Road something like […]
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A review: Light-hearted ‘Scoundrels’
There are several strong similarities between the stage version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Mel Brooks’ The Producers. Both began as non–musical movies – funny stuff, in both cases, but […]
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The con is on
Central to the plot of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is the relationship between its central characters, a pair of con men on the French Riviera. Lawrence Jackson and Freddie Benson are […]
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Review: AWOL’s Choices
All Walks of Life’s (AWOL) final production of Choices this past Saturday night, a hip hop adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, was a riveting show and that seemed to […]
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Review: Annie @ Savannah Children’s Theatre
It’s been a while since a local theatre group took on the classic musical Annie. The timing of this Savannah Children’s Theatre production, set in the 1930s, couldn’t be better […]
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AWOL makes its Choices
All Walks of Life (AWOL) started in 1997 as a simple gathering of poets, musicians, and MCs at Savannah State University. Incorporated as a non-profit in 2004, the organization provides arts and […]
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The business of show
No less a country music star than Reba McEntire has given her seal of approval to the Savannah Theatre, where Country Star Revue has just begun a three week–run. Last […]
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The sun’ll come out…
The Savannah Children’s Theatre is hoping to “absolutely delight” audiences with their fifth season’s opening production of Annie. Kelie Miley, director of the Children’s Theatre, has this to say […]
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Fifty years and change
Tom Coleman’s all–time favorite play is the Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt musical comedy The Fantasticks, which features ordinary people learning to enjoy — the hard way, sometimes — life’s little blessings. […]
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Miles of aisles
Mike and Jill, Robbie and Julia. Mike and Julia, Jill and Robbie. They’re the same people. The national touring production of The Wedding Singer, which visits the Johnny Mercer Theatre […]
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Freakin’ awesome
For the better part of the past 20 years, Tim Cridland has been driving sharp skewers into his tongue and pushing them out through his neck, chewing on shards of […]
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What’s opera, Doc?
Early one evening in 2004, Matthew Lord was in his dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, waiting to go onstage for his Met debut in Boris Godunov. […]