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Directed by Jennifer Giering
Director Jennifer Giering deserves a lot of credit for A...My Name Is Alice's success. Her staging is clean and energetic. But she makes some odd casting choices. She chose to cast two men in small parts usually played by women, or neglected altogether. Matt Damon gives low-key...
Doctoroff and Giering move the audience as their characters contemplate their prospects for the future in the wistful song, "If Mamma Was Married." The song has a hopeful note until the singers come to the brutal realization that "Mamma nevers stays married for long."
The the emotional level is well-sustained throughout this act by stunning performances by Giering in "In Buddy's Eyes" and by Schaeffer in "The Road You Didn't Take". But the lighter "Agony II" is a welcome break--it allows the audience a needed breather between powerful ballads. It...
The stormy "A Boy Like That" allows Giering to shine yet again. She plays a woman berated by Doctoroff's character for falling in love with a seemingly unsavory character. Giering displays a fine dramatic touch as she turns the tables, and beautifully expresses her unswerving love for the man...