by Paula Kaplan-Reiss It’s a love story, which began as a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller in 1992, turned into a movie in 1995 starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, and adapted into a musical which premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2013 and moved to Broadway in…
BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING BOOK [GHENT, NY] The Ghent Playhouse continues its 2023-24 season with “The Bridges of Madison County,” the Tony award-winning musical based on the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. This sweeping romantic tale recalls the unexpected love affair between a roving photographer and an Italian-born housewife.…
GHENT PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES OPEN AUDITIONS FOR ITS EARLY SPRING PRODUCTION “THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Book by Marsha Norman; Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown Directed by Michael C. Mensching and Michael McDermott Musical Direction by Ellen Rizzo Sunday, February 11 and Thursday, February 16, 2024 Important! Change to…
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Book by Marsha Norman; Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown Directed by Michael C. Mensching and Michael McDermott Musical Direction by Ellen Rizzo Sunday, February 11 and Thursday, February 16, 2024 7:00-9:00pm At The Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Road, Ghent, New York SYNOPSIS:…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Tintypes is a pleasant little revue of music from the turn of the 20th century. If you have only a passing knowledge of those fascinating decades of American history between the Civil War and World War I, this show will strike you as a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2003 The French find Molière and Jerry Lewis hysterically funny. I find them both mildy amusing but slightly inscrutable. Since my mother’s mother’s mother was French I have apparently inherited just enough French blood to get the jokes but not to laugh myself silly…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 This is a very pleasant evening at the theatre. I left the house thinking, “This will be pleasant.” and when I turned to my companion at the end of the show she said, “Well, that was pleasant.” Pleasant. Pleasant is the word. Is…
