The show was written by Stephen Dolginoff and first produced off-Broadway in 2005. It’s been produced all over the world and has won a number of awards. I hadn’t ever heard of it but decided to see it because I couldn’t imagine a musical about Leopold and Loeb.
It seems as if I’ve always been aware of Leopold and Loeb but it was probably the late sixties or early seventies when I read about them. When I told people I was going to see a musical about Leopold and Loeb reactions were split according to age. People under 50 had no idea who Leopold and Loeb were and people over 50 thought it was a strange subject for a musical. Continue reading Review: Thrill Me (capricorn 9 productions)→
Mirvish presents the classic Cole Porter musical Anything Goes at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre
Anything Goes opened last night at the Princess of Wales Theatre. My friend Elaine and I have been eagerly waiting to see it. We’re both fans of what I think of as big old-fashioned musicals; the kind with at least one catchy song that you hum under your breath as you leave the theatre, at least one big dance number, a big cast, and great costumes.
Challenging Stuff at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille.
The first time I saw Offers of Home by Stephen Joffe (currently playing at the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace), I was struck by its mundanity. The stories it explores are so earthy and realistic that the experience has a voyeuristic quality: the audience isn’t watching a play, they’re walking down a suburban street–and peering through the letterboxes as they go.
This expanded version–a longer script and a fully-mounted production–maintains that intimate feeling, while also sandpapering off some of the rougher edges. A better framing device, a grittier staging and some stronger character work all make for a great evening.
Toronto’s F/ presents an iPhone app-based roaming dance-theatre performance
A heist is going down in Toronto and you’re invited to infiltrate a secret world of operatives, agents, and radicals. All you need is your iPhone. F/, a Toronto-based dance company, has created Jacqueries; a promenade-style dance/theatre hybrid layered with digital elements that audiences experience via an iPhone app.
Code White Theatre‘s Toronto Fringe Festival entry 3 Artists Search for a Festival is a delightful short play, taking its audience to see just what sort of desperation can besets performers in the fifteen minutes before showtime.
The play opens in a rush, as actors Leah Holder and Mandy E. MacLean rush to join their director (Matthew James Hines) at a table in a tent in the alley at Honest Ed’s. Only fifteen minutes remain before the curtain will rise on the next performance of the three’s Fringe show, barely enough time for them to go over the director’s notes scene by scene.
On the program it looks as if the full title of the show playing on July weekends at Red Sandcastle Theatre is Thrill Me a musical The Leopold and Loeb Story.
Challenging Stuff at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille.
