Millennial Notes Scott Denison Crafts a Delightful Dickensian World by Rachel Norby “A Christmas Carol” is everyone’s favorite holiday tradition. Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale applies to any time of year, and perhaps more acutely to this pandemic year. Dickens may have been writing about Victorian England, but his picture of poverty and suffering…
Jack Thorne Spreads Dickens’ Words of Warmth & Equality by Tyler Jeffreys & Barry David Horwitz London’s Old Vic has created a new Scrooge and he’s in San Francisco, right now. This sympathetic performance by Francois Battiste, well-known TV star, brings us closer to the machinations in the mind of a pitiable, deprived Ebeneezer….
Millennial Notes Sondheim & Lapine Brew Powerful Musical Magic by Jordan Freed Everyone I know either loves “Into the Woods” or hates it. When I saw it as a teenager I hated it. Only after I worked on a production, did I fall in love with Sondheim’s weaving of our lives into classic fairy…
Bartlett Sher Restores Eliza Doolittle’s Rebellious Voice by Barry David Horwitz With his award-winning revival of 50s masterpiece “My Fair Lady,” Bartlett Sher has reasserted the secrets of Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” that provide the musical with its story and its script. As a bold feminist and socialist, Shaw focused his comic wit on the…