By Barry Reszel Pop singers Ariana Grande and The Weeknd get “Gotta.” Tell me something I need to know Then take my breath and never let it go If you just let me invade your space I’ll take the pleasure, take it with the pain And if in the moment I bite my lip Baby
Archives for December 2015
Light Opera’s ‘Guys’ could make a missionary rethink her position
By Erin Fleming Light Opera Works celebrates the holiday season with another classic gem of the American musical theatre canon, the Tony Awarding: Guys and Dolls. What’s playing at the Cahn Auditorium? I’ll tell you what’s playing at the Cahn Auditorium…Musical about New York gambler Nathan Detroit trying to organize a craps game while Adelaide
Black Ensemble’s explosive ‘Divas’ hot despite damp plot
By Patrick O’Brien Four of music’s greatest divas–Roberta Flack, Nancy Wilson, Gladys Knight and Aretha Franklin–placed in a room, and they can’t get out until they have tapped the deep-running well of emotion that has kept them at the top of their game for decades. No, this is not Soul Train meets Sartre, but rather
Royal George’s ‘Unbound’ locates the baritone somewhere between heaven and earth, but only through Jan. 3
By Patrick O’Brien As a voice part, the baritone is neither here nor there, being too low for a tenor and too high for a bass. Or, in the parlance of operatic archetypes, neither a hero nor a villain. So where is he, then, or, what is he? Hershey Felder’s neat little bonbon at the
‘Hamilton’ comes to newly named city theatre in September
CHICAGO–Producer Jeffrey Seller announced the blockbuster Broadway musical HAMILTON–with book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda–will play its first engagement outside New York this fall in Chicago. Performances begin September 27, 2016, at Broadway In Chicago’s newly named The PrivateBank Theatre (18 W. Monroe, the current Bank of America Theatre). With book, music and lyrics
