BRIGADOON is a lovely walk through the heather
DRAPER — Brigadoon is a musical written by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner that has been around over 50 years. The music is well known, and the story one that brings a person in to a world of...
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SPANISH FORK – Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are two names that most theater patrons probably know by now, but I recently had the pleasure of meeting these two for the first time. It almost feels...
View ArticleBRIGADOON doesn’t live up to Lerner and Loewe’s legacy
WEST VALLEY CITY — Brigadoon opens on Jeff and Tommy, two New Yorkers on a hunting trip in Scotland. After the two become lost in a thick fog, they stumble upon an idyllic Highland village replete with...
View ArticleAn unrefined yet loverly MY FAIR LADY at the Egyptian
PARK CITY — On March 15, 1956, My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway. Now exactly 58 years later, this classic musical opened at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s...
View ArticleA great MY FAIR LADY near the street where you live
OREM — George Bernard Shaw’s most famous play, The Pygmalion, is an examination of the “nature versus nurture” debate of human behavior. Coming clearly on the side of “nurture,” Shaw’s 1913 play tells...
View Article“From this day on,” plan to see SCERA’s BRIGADOON
OREM — With a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner with music by Frederick Loewe, Brigadoon tells the story of Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, two American tourists who become lost in the wiles of...
View ArticleVisit CenterPoint’s CAMELOT for some “happily ever aftering”
CENTERVILLE — Arthurian legends have entranced people for hundreds of years, and the stories have been retold and adapted into countless versions and styles. Perhaps one of the most prominent...
View ArticleA flawless execution by CenterPoint in MY FAIR LADY
CENTERVILLE — CenterPoint opened My Fair Lady, the classic story based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The musical first opened in 1956 and is...
View ArticleGo happily-ever-aftering to CAMELOT at Hale Center Theater Orem
OREM — In the title song of Camelot, King Arthur sings, “In short, there’s simply not a more congenial spot for happily-ever-aftering than here in Camelot.” He might as well have been singing about the...
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