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KARPEL GROUP
PIRATE QUEEN/original Broadway cast: It only ran for two months, but you know this cleffer is going to acquire a cult following like some of Sondheim’s 70’s “misfires” that have lived on. From the creative team behind “Les Mis” and “Miss Saigon”, as well as those who had a hand in “Riverdance”. comes the story of a female Irish pirate that takes on the Queen of England. While the stage might not have room for the pirotechnics of movie pirates, it has all the proper elements for these elements to work in libretto form. Possibly the most sweeping look at stage pirates since Gilbert & Sullivan.
11810 (Masterworks Broadway)
CURTAINS/original Broadway cast: The last work from Kander & Ebb, this show within a show gives Niles Crane the chance to strut his stuff as a Broadway song and dance man as he struggles with wanting to become a Broadway song and dance man in this show within a show. Follow the mobius strip? Your ears were always in good hands with Kander & Ebb and this curtain call is no exception. Show music fans have a lot of fun stuff here to enjoy until a production of this comes rolling through your town. A fine feel good show for the masses who are just looking for solid entertainment.
92212 (Broadway Angel/Manhattan)
MARTIN SHORT/Fame Becomes Me: Five people singing about being in a one man show? Marty Short’s got something up his sleeve and it’s nutty hilarity. Pulling from his various media disciples, Short media mixes moves into this “autobiographical” comedy romp in which he makes his life story seem like an open book, if the book is somewhere the other side of the looking glass. Deceptively feeling like old time show biz schmaltz, Short loses himself in the character of himself and brings home some well needed laughs.
44202 (Ghostlight)
LEGALLY BLONDE/original Broadway cast: It’s kind of funny to think a throw away Reese Witherspoon pic could be turned into a play that sops up the Tonys. That’s what happens when you have the right talent in the right places. The tale of the dingbat that becomes a Harvard Lawyer seems to have more charm in it’s musical incarnation than it’s Valley Girl/popcorn version. Snappy songs with crisp performances power things along nicely in what some might have though only had a chance to be a sleeper hit at best.
44232 (Ghostlight)
Volume 30/Number 251
July 9, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
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CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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