Cambridge Central School Drama Club Call for Auditions! Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Enchanted Edition) For Students Grades 7 – 12 Audition Dates:Thursday, February 3 & Friday, February 43:30 – 5:30 PM Hubbard Hall, 25 East Main St., Cambridge, NY 12816 (entrance behind the Hall) Performances: April 7 – 10 CCS Drama Club begins…
*Not So Common Players* will be holding auditions for it’s summer production of *Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific: In Concert*. The show will take place July 23, 24, & 25 on the outdoor Commons stage in Clifton Park. In this concert version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, two parallel…
by Roseann Cane The first musical written by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Oklahoma! opened on Broadway on March 31,1943. An box-office smash from the get-go, it ran for more than 2,000 performances. During the nearly 76 years since, it’s a fair bet that this deservedly…
The core of a great musical has to be its heart and soul, not Brechtian nonsense.
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2006 When I go to see an oft-produced classic like South Pacific I ask myself two questions: Does it effectively tell the story? Does it bring anything new to the story? Some theatrical reimaginings bring so much that is new that the original intent is lost,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 Now celebrating its 17th season, Park Playhouse presents one big musical every summer outdoors on a large stage erected at the Lake House in Washington Park in Albany. This year it is a cheerful production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer prize-winning 1949 show South…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2005 In 1999, Time Magazine looked back over the entire 20th century, a century that saw the American musical take shape, and named Rodgers and Hammerstein’s second collaboration Carousel the Best Musical of the Century! High praise indeed. Rodgers and Hammerstein themselves liked Carousel the best of all…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 I knew that I had reviewed a previous production of The King and I at the Mac-Haydn many years ago, and that I had had some problems with it. Looking back at my review from 1998, I see that it was the first show I…
