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CHICAGO Musical at Fox Theater Review
By Cate Marquis The Fabulous Fox Theater hosts a fabulous musical treat over the post-Thanksgiving weekend “Chicago,” for a too-brief run of the beloved Broadway hit. “Chicago” is an enduring audience favorites and one of the true greats of musical theater, Broadway’s longest running show that started on Broadway, longest running American musical, and fast…
PETER PAN Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The beloved musical classic “Peter Pan” flies into the Fox Theater bringing family fun, adventure and amazing stage effects to delight all ages. The musical adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s beloved children’s adventure book has delighted generations with its adventure fun and flying effects but this is a somewhat different “Peter…
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE – THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – “A Beautiful Noise – The Neil Diamond Musical” brings a ton of the prolific singer/songwriter’s pop song hits to the Fabulous Fox stage, through November 10, providing an entertaining distraction from election season jitters. Certainly that is the case if you are a Neil Diamond fan, at least – and…
THE ROOMMATE at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis re-launches its beloved Studio series, now the Steve Woolf Studio Series, in their lower-level, black-box Emerson Studio space, with a winning firecracker of a play, “The Roommate.” This two-person play puts two women who couldn’t be more different together as roommates in a large…
DIAL M FOR MURDER at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis gets its 2024-2025 season off to a thrilling start with “Dial M for Murder,” on stage at the Loretto Hilton Theater in Webster Groves through Oct. 13. Many of us know “Dial M for Murder” through the Alfred Hitchcock movie but, in fact, Hitchcock…
HAMILTON Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The multiple-Tony Award winning “Hamilton” returns to the Fabulous Fox stage, with an excellent touring cast and all the energy, hit tunes and Founding Father history than have won it millions of fans. And those fans packed the Fox on opening night for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed, multiple award-winning show, adding…
MJ The Michael Jackson Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – Among the spate of musicals about musicians that combine biography with a jukebox performances of their hits songs, some are standouts. “MJ,” the musical about Michael Jackson, is one of those, and among that top tier, a must-see even if one is not particularly a fan of Michael Jackson’s music….
MOULIN ROUGE Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – Baz Luhrman’s wild, crazy movie musical MOULIN ROUGE was a big screen explosion of color, dazzle and pop-music favorites, in what was dubbed a jukebox musical. The romantic fantasy movie was highly theatrical as well as cinematic, and when it finally was adapted into a Broadway musical, it was a…
THE BOOK OF MORMON Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The hilarious musical “The Book of Mormon” returns to the Fox with all the rude, irreverent, laugh-out-loud satiric humor you would expect from the guys who brought us “South Park,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Joined by Robert Lopez, one of the creators of the equally irreverent musical “Avenue Q,”…
COMPANY Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – Having company over for an evening makes for a good time. Seeing “Company” at the Fox makes for a good-time evening of laughs and songs by Stephen Sondheim. This Broadway revival of what is probably Sondheim’s funniest play won Five Tonys including Best Musical Revival. The musical comedy focuses on…