‘A Christmas Carol’ on Broadway: One Actor, 50 Characters, Excellent Shocks
Playing both narrator and all the characters is no small feat—as the warm standing ovation for Mays showed at the end, the night this critic attended, reflected. But the magic of this production, adapted by Mays, Susan Lyons, and director Michael Arden, is just as much to do with the Laffrey’s stupendous stage design, which is a riot of trickery and surprises, Ben Stanton’s lighting, and Joshua D. Reid’s sound design.
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Imagine a musical that uses the hottest pop-bops from your tween years to rewrite Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as redesigned by Anne Hathaway. No, not the Anne who won an Oscar for Les Mis―the other one, who has an ax to grind with her playwright hubby Will who’s never at home and seems allergic to […]
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The Hilarious, Life-Affirming ‘The Old Man and the Pool’ Turned Me into a Mike Birbiglia Fan
When comic Mike Birbiglia took to the almost bare stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre I noticed that besides a dark stool, a staple for stand-up comics, there wasn’t much else to see (a stark contrast from the filled-to-the-brim lavish set of The Skin of Our Teeth last time I was here). I wasn’t expecting […]
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