Long potential half-life for CURIE ME AWAY
SALT LAKE CITY — Curie Me Away is a musical by Matheatre that covers the story of Madame Marie Curie, a world-renowned scientist who ended up dying because of the…
CenterPoint’s 9 TO 5 is relevant for women today
CENTERVILLE — 9 to 5 is a musical that debuted on Broadway in 2009 and is based upon the 1980’s movie of the same name. Music and lyrics are by…
Yeehaw! Sundance’s JOSEPH…DREAMCOAT is a fun hootenanny
SUNDANCE — I’ve never quite understood the phenomenon behind Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s music and Tim Rice‘s lyrics are catchy, the show always felt…
Great cast, mediocre script in UNDER CONSTRUCTION
CEDAR CITY — Under Construction by local theatre artist Peter Sham is a fun and energetic musical about the people most audiences never think about in the theatre: the set…
Spanish Fork’s THE LITTLE MERMAID is positoov-ly fun
SPANISH FORK — Having seen the show on stage three times before, I’m used to spectacle in The Little Mermaid. Nearly every page of Doug Wright‘s script calls for some…
“Take a Chance” on MAMMA MIA! at Tuacahn
IVINS — Wrapping up the 2017 summer season, Tuacahn brings one of Broadway’s most popular and longest running musicals to the red rock canyon. With music and lyrics by Benny…
Bring your shipoopi to UFO&MT’s THE MUSIC MAN
LOGAN — One of the most golden examples of a golden age musical would have to be Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. The story of a fly-by-night salesman who swings…
SCERA has a great SEUSSICAL, “all for you”
OREM — It is rare that I get a chance to review the a different production of the same show in quick succession. But I have a ten-year-old daughter who…
No wobbly land legs for Herriman’s THE LITTLE MERMAID
HERRIMAN — We all know the Disney version of The Little Mermaid. A young girl finds unhappiness in her sheltered life below the seas, wishing to know more about the…
No sanctuary for this HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
LOGAN — The musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with songs by the same team behind the 1996 Disney film, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, first premiered in Berlin in…