Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ariels's opening season concentrates on dramatic works (particularly those based on or set to texts) and the development of serious music theater up to and beyond the present. In a sense, no city in the country is better suited to presenting these a traditional works than Boston (or Cambridge...
With only piano, harp and bass at his disposal, musical director and piantist Dan Ullman achieves a surprising spectrum of moods with the score. Except for the touching ballad "Try to Remember," the songs are musically undistinguished. Still, the musical numbers are the strong points of the show. Matt and...
Costumes are appropriately early '60s-ish. The choreography, done by Patty Woo, lacks flair in the opening scene, but picks up for the musical numbers, which are staged with wit and aplomb, and the sprawling deaths of Roy and Larsen are limericks, if not poetry, in motion.
The Fantasticks is a depressingly conservative musical comedy. More than anything else, Jones is telling young people to stay at home, that arguing with your parents can only lead to hurt, that the world is an ugly place, that it isn't worth exploring other places and ideas because the...
The Kirkland House production of The Fantasticks is a good college try at musical comedy. If you like professional productions of the show, which continues to run off-Broadway, you will not be disappointed with the faithful Kirkland version. But if your expectations for theater are higher than what Jones...