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Monday, April 22, 2013

Review: María de Buenos Aires/Chicago Opera Theater by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED One of the problems with being the new impresario in town who conducts, directs and simultaneously runs another opera company on the West Coast is catching your breath long enoug…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:42PM

Monday, April 15, 2013

Review: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED Heavily promoted as two words you don’t hear together very often, i.e., a “mariachi opera,” “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna” [“To cross the face of the moon”] is actuall…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:38PM

Monday, April 8, 2013

Review: Catch Me If You Can/Broadway In Chicago by Dennis Polkow

They come without warning, those occasional Non-Equity shows that Broadway In Chicago manages to slip into its lineup. They are usually classics or revivals popular enough to be relatively…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:28PM

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

How It Begins: Composer of “Big Fish” Hopes to Reel in an Emotional Whopper by Dennis Polkow

By Dennis Polkow Andrew Lippa, the composer of “Big Fish,” has been very busy readying the show for its pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago. “‘Big Fish’ is a joyful celebration …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM

Friday, March 29, 2013

Review: A Streetcar Named Desire/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED One of the great difficulties in bringing an iconic contemporary play to the opera house is securing permission from the playwright, without which, an opera is not possible. In t…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:40PM

Monday, March 25, 2013

Review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert/Broadway In Chicago by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED The touring version of the Broadway production of the Australian jukebox musical based on the 1994 Australian film has landed at the Auditorium Theatre. The film “The Adven…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:37AM

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Review: Aspects of Love/Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED The early works of Andrew Lloyd Webber incorporated rock and pop idioms into the Broadway musical that, taken with the punchy lyrics of his early partner Tim Rice and a through-c…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM

Monday, March 4, 2013

Review: Rigoletto/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED Verdi’s “Rigoletto” is so popular and done so often that it has become a festering ground for avant-garde directorial concepts that more often than not are bizarrely superi…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:30AM

Monday, February 25, 2013

Review: The Fall of the House of Usher/Chicago Opera Theater by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED The Andreas Mitisek era has begun at Chicago Opera Theater. Walking across the stage on crutches with a leg cast at Saturday night’s season opening, Mitisek noted that his fall…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:46PM

Monday, November 26, 2012

Review: Don Pasquale/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED Whereas the recent Lyric production of “Werther” was constantly fighting against the music for attention, the production of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” that opened S…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM

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