The Sound of Music (not done at CST since '94; received second-highest number of votes in their playgoers' poll)
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Sondheim's A Little Night Music (recently revived on Broadway with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, who were even more recently replaced by Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch; it's based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, which you must get on Netflix even if it is a '50s Swedish comedy in black and white, especially for the scenes when the actress engineers the confrontation of her two arrogant lovers and the failed-suicide-followed-by-pop-out-bed.
... and we'll off skip down the Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz.
Bobo was amused that the Spokesman's preview of Hairspray misidentified a picture of Patrick Treadway as Roger Welch. Surely prominent members of the local theater community are better known than that, I thought.
ReplyDeleteAt least, I thought that until, before last night's show, a local actress (and Spokie winner) saw me in the lobby, gave me a big smile and said, "Hi, Jim."
Hilarious.
The Sound of Music played at the INB Center (then the Opera House) in '03 and at the Civic in '07.
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