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  • CD Review: TAKE ME TO THE WORLD (Sutton Foster)

    By Eve Meadows | June 19, 2018
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    TAKING US TO HER WORLD I’m a huge fan of Sutton Foster: Her work is stunning on Original Cast Albums like Violet, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Anything Goes (which I think is far superior to the Patti LuPone version). So it’s a shame that her latest CD is such a mixed effort; there’s an “A”…

  • CD Review: 2018 TONY AWARD SEASON (Various Artists on Broadway Records)

    By Eve Meadows | June 8, 2018
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    TONY’S TASTY TASTER For quite a few years now, the Grammy Foundation has released a CD with the top Grammy nominated recordings in pop, R&B and Country categories. But it’s a strange brew — a mixed bag of genres that doesn’t satisfy as a listening experience. Now for the second year, the American Theatre Wing…

  • Dance Preview: BODYTRAFFIC (The Wallis)

    By Eve Meadows | May 27, 2018
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    FIVE NOT-SO-EASY PIECES BODYTRAFFIC, the contemporary dance outfit headquartered right here in Los Angeles, has smartly scheduled three performances of this weekend’s upcoming showcase of exciting works — including a Company Premiere and a World Premiere — at The Wallis in Beverly Hills.  The last four times I saw this exciting company (three at the Broad,…

  • Los Vegas Concert Review: AUDRA MCDONALD IN CONCERT (The Smith Center for the Performing Arts)

    By Eve Meadows | May 9, 2018
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    MCDONALD’S CHARM The last time I saw  the captivating singer and actress Audra McDonald in concert, she sang the Bernstein/Comden/Green tune “I’m a Little Bit in Love” from Wonderful Town: “Mm–mmm! / It’s so nice to be alive / When you find someone who bewitches you.” And when you see her upcoming concert at the Smith…

  • CD Review: WISH YOU WERE HERE (The Ten Tenors)

    By Eve Meadows | April 24, 2018
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    TEN TENACIOUS TENORS I’ve always liked the tenor voice; from Pavorotti to The Three Tenors and everything in between I’ve been fortunate enough to have a wealth of choices. But then I was exposed to ten young Australian guys at a live concert over ten years ago, something changed because here was a group that…

  • CD Review: MISA A BUENOS AIRES (Martí­n Palmeri)

    By Eve Meadows | April 18, 2018
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    TANGO FOR CHURCH Martí­n Palmeri (b. 1965) is not a well-known name, but based on his Misa a Buenos Aires, a rich orchestral and choral work that uses as a subtext both polyphonic music and tango, I hope more folks get to know him soon. Born in Buenos Aires, it’s clear that he’s a composer,…

  • CD Review: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (New Broadway Cast Recording)

    By Eve Meadows | March 5, 2018
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    ONCE AGAIN A lot of hoopla attended the 1990 Off-Broadway surprise of a small musical called Once on This Island. Loosely based on Rosa Guy’s Caribbean-flavored novel, My Love, My Love, which in turn is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, it was part of a late spring festival of new work…

  • CD Review: OUR CHRISTMAS WISH (The Ten Tenors)

    By Eve Meadows | November 27, 2017
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    CHESTNUTS EXPLODING ON A TENOR FIRE I’ve always liked the tenor voice; from Pavorotti to The Three Tenors and everything in between I’ve been fortunate enough to have a wealth of choices. But then I was exposed to ten young Australian guys at a live concert over ten years ago, something changed because here was…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: FAT PIG (Hudson)

    By Eve Meadows | May 12, 2014
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    A PIG WITH WINGS Variety critic Daniel Kimmel identified a thread running through Neil LaBute’s work: “He is a misanthrope who assumes that only callous people who use and abuse others can survive.” Fat Pig, now receiving a satisfying production at the Hudson under Alexis Jacknow’s fine direction, is so true to what people really…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: TO QUIET THE QUIET (Elephant Stages in Hollywood)

    By Eve Meadows | August 29, 2012
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    THE ACTORS SHINE IN A  CLOUDY PLAY Playwright Christy Hall comments about her play To Quiet the Quiet, “I am most interested in the complexities of the human condition,” and in her work she truly draws fine character studies. But there is some difficulty in the plot development. In an effort not to give away too…

  • Los Angeles Theater Review: WHERE THE GREAT ONES RUN (Rogue Machine)

    By Eve Meadows | June 4, 2012
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    RUN The Rogue Machine is one of the best theatre companies in Los Angeles, producing some of the finest productions anywhere. Sadly, their latest effort Where the Great Ones Run wandered off their true artistic center and truly left me baffled. The story basically is about a Country Star returning to his home town because…

  • Off Broadway Theater Review/Commentary: TEMPORAL POWERS (The Mint Theater Company)

    By Eve Meadows | August 29, 2011
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    A PLAYWRIGHT REBORN Sometimes you walk into a theater and, for some uncanny reason, begin to anticipate that something very fine is about to happen. And when those expectations are met, it’s like falling in love for the first time — and indeed, you remember why you fell in love with live theatre in the…

  • NYC Fringe Review: CIVILIAN (Bleecker Street Theatre)

    By Eve Meadows | August 26, 2011
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    THEATER OF GOOD INTENTIONS No matter how worthy Civilian is, with its interviews of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, one cannot call this play effective theatre. There have been several moving documentaries of real soldiers being interviewed on HBO and fine war plays written by imaginative writers, but this “documentary drama” by playwright and…

  • Off-Broadway Theater Review: FREUD’S LAST SESSION (Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater)

    By Eve Meadows | August 25, 2011
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    A CLASH OF THE MINDS Mark St. Germain based his play Freud’s Last Session on a book by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. entitled The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and The Meaning of Life. All of the weighty issues in the book’s title are skillfully investigated and cleverly…

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