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CD Review: A SONG FOR YOU (Steve Tyrell)
A HOMOGENIZED SONG FOR YOU Look, it’s a matter of taste. Steve Tyrell began his career in the ’60s as a music supervisor for Scepter Records in the 1960s where his mentors were Burt Bacharach and Hal David (Tyrell even tagged fellow Texan B.J. Thomas to sing “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” for Butch Cassidy…
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CD Review: ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME (Original Cast Recording)
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST I’m actually happy I didn’t see this musical live on stage. It makes for a wonderful original cast recording, but what seems like a giant heart on this CD, out recently from Broadway Records, seems like it would get awfully silly on stage (bookwriter Joe DiPietro can get like that)….
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Chicago Theater Review: TIME IS ON OUR SIDE (About Face Theatre)
UNLOCKING WHAT WAS NEVER HIDDEN At least Time Is On Our Side is more sex-affirmative and upbeat than Significant Other, About Face Theatre’s last offering. A Midwest premiere devotedly staged by artistic director Megan Carney, this overlong 140-minute drama by R. Eric Thomas is, like Lookingglass Theatre’s equally unfortunate Plantation!, beautifully meant and (more) mature. Billed as a “gleeful…
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CD Review: ESCHER STRING QUARTET (Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Borodin)
AMERICAN QUARTET; AMERICAN ENSEMBLE: OH, BEAUTIFUL! Dvořák’s American Quartet is one of the most famous and loved string quartets, mostly because of the memorable pentatonic melodies (five note per octave scales, which are often found in American folk music) that invoke the wide open prairies of the undeveloped heartland of the country for which it’s…
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CD Review: WORKING: A MUSICAL (Original London Cast Recording on Ghostlight Records)
THE MUSICAL THAT KEEPS ON WORKING Was 2017 really the European premiere of this oft-produced musical? Yep. 40 years since the Broadway opening of Working, and we’re just getting the Original London Cast recording. Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso’s 1978 musical — adapted from Studs Terkel’s 1974 nonfiction book about working-class Americans – moves between monologues…
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Chicago Opera Review: FAUST (Lyric Opera)
A FAUSTIAN BARGAIN OF SORTS Bold, eclectic and experimental, Lyric Opera’s new production (co-produced with Portland Opera) of Gounod’s Faust comes across as rather jumbled, a mishmash, a hodgepodge — even a farrago. Thought it might not be entirely coherent, the result is surprisingly enjoyable, thanks above all to Gounod’s searing and sumptuous score, an…
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CD Review: LISZT — The Two Piano Concertos; 12 Transcendental Études (Alessandro Ambrosoli)
ANOTHER ÉTUDES TO ADD TO YOUR LISZT … COLLECTION, THAT IS Dynamic Records has just released an album of Liszt starring Italian pianist Alessandro Ambrosoli (b. 1969). Disc 1 is all 12 Études d’exécution transcendante; disc 2 are Liszt’s two piano concertos. Independent Italian record company Dynamic often releases live recordings, but that only applies to…
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CD Review: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (New Broadway Cast Recording)
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…
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Chicago Theater Review: PLANTATION! (Lookingglass Theatre Company)
RIDICULOUS REVENGE It’s so well-intentioned that the results are doubly deplorable. Lookingglass Theatre Company’s Plantation!, a world premiere by ensemble member Kevin Douglas staged by their own David Schwimmer, might have mattered. That’s the saddest thing about this clumsy comedy. Its goal is golden — to explore the painful payback of retroactive justice. Its worthy…
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Chicago Dance Review: 8TH ANNUAL WINNING WORKS (Joffrey Academy of Dance and MCA, Chicago)
LITERAL LEAPS INTO THE FUTURE It’s all over — but this review of record is as much a promissory note as a remembrance. Worth noting as much as seeing, Winning Works, the Joffrey Ballet’s debut of four trail-blazing works at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, carried a train load of future reference. Both encouragement to cutting-edge…
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Los Angeles Music Review: A TRIP TO THE MOON & THE PLANETS (Teddy Abrams and the LA Phil)
WHAT A TRIP Close on the heels of LA Phil’s behemoth production of Bernstein’s Mass comes another large-scale work with mind-boggling logistics. Co-commissioned with the London Symphony, A Trip to the Moon is Andrew Norman’s fanciful musical about a fin de siècle voyage to the Moon, whose inhabitants have trouble communicating with the Edwardian/Victorian astronomers…
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Chicago Theater Review: MARY STUART (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
A ROYAL CATFIGHT GETS A ROYAL PRODUCTION Coulda, woulda, shoulda: It’s the greatest confrontation between rival monarchs that never happened — the 1586 face-off between the “Virgin” Queen Elizabeth and the younger, thrice-wed Mary Queen of Scots (whose son, ironically, would inherit the disputed throne). In hindsight it seems a no-brainer: The cousins should have had a…
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Los Angeles Music Review: THE OSCAR CONCERT (A.M.P.A.S. and LA Phil at Disney Hall)
HIGH SCORES FOR A CONCERT OF SCORES The logistics of putting together this terrific night, including an assemblage of Hollywood’s A-List composers and directors, must have been daunting. Indeed, so much work went into The Oscar Concert that it’s a shame it only played once. A co-production of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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Los Angeles Music Review: DANIIL TRIFONOV & SERGEI BABAYAN (Two-Piano Recital at Disney Hall)
A WELL-MATCHED TEACHER AND STUDENT One of our greatest living pianists — if not the greatest — Daniil Trifonov (dan-EEL TREE-fon-ov) came to Disney Hall for a solo recital exactly two years ago. He played a gargantuan program lasting over 160 minutes. Included were the Brahms Chaconne in D minor for the Left Hand (after…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Boston Court in Pasadena)
A MODERNIZED STREETCAR Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams’ still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes perfect sense that director Michael Michetti would choose to update the Pulitzer Prize winner for modern times. A Southern Belle schoolteacher, Blanche DuBois, arrives in New Orleans needing the…
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Los Angeles Music Review: JOHN ADAMS CONDUCTS (McIntosh World Premiere with the L.A. Phil)
A JUICY MCINTOSH What used to feel like the LA Phil’s token new music series seems to finally be hitting its stride. Green Umbrella is trending up thanks to a massive new commission budget and Los Angeles’s sudden role as new music tastemaker. Last Tuesday’s concert was the latest in what seems like a constant…
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CD Review: FIORENTINO PLAYS LISZT: Selections (Sergio Fiorentino)
FIORENTINO PLAYS LISZT His astounding musical insights turned the most well-known works into a brand new revelation, and his ken of composers from Chopin to Bach to Schumann to Scriabin was nearly unparalleled. But when this amazing Italian pianist died suddenly and painlessly at his home in 1998 at the age of 69, his fame…
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Chicago Theater Review: HAIL, HAIL CHUCK: A TRIBUTE TO CHUCK BERRY (Black Ensemble Theater)
JOHNNY BE BAD: A CHUCK ROAST Once more it’s homage time on Clark Street. The latest musical reclamation from Black Ensemble Theater, L. Maceo Ferris’s Hail, Hail Chuck: A Tribute to Chuck Berry is a very conditional salute to an early pioneer of rock and roll. As always with the company’s memory revues, we learn the price…
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San Diego Theater Review: CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
THREE GREAT MINDS MAKE FOR INTRIGUING THEATER There’s a game where you get to pick three famous people and go to dinner with all of them. In Mark St. Germaine’s Camping with Henry and Tom, it’s kind of like that game, except it’s based on a true story. And you only get to watch the…
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Chicago Theater Review: SIX CORNERS (American Blues Theater at Stage 773)
MESSING UP MURDER The cops may be blue, the victims black, but in Six Corners the predominant color is gray. Marinating in moral relativism, this independent installment in Chicago playwright Keith Huff’s “cop trilogy” (also A Steady Rain and The Detective’s Wife) is an inside job in the best way. Huff, who married into a cop family and knows the…
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