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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…
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…
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,”…
MAMMA MIA! Musical at the Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – “Mamma Mia!,” the jukebox musical featuring the bouncy songs of ’70s Swedish pop superstars ABBA, is back at the Fox, for a short run through Sunday, Feb. 18. Judging by the nearly sold-out crowd on opening night, fans couldn’t wait for its return. The show, complete ’70s sequined white-spandex and…
FUNNY GIRL Musical at the Fox Theater Review
Katerina McCrimmon and Izaiah Montaque Harris in FUNNY GIRL. Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade – By Cate Marquis – “Funny Girl,” the hit revival of the Broadway hit musical about legendary Broadway comedy star Fanny Brice, the role that made Barbara Streisand a star, hit the Fabulous Fox Theater stage on Jan. 23 for…
JAGGED LITTLE PILL Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill, the Musical” made its Fox theater debut this week, on Firday, Jan.19, for a too-brief run through Sunday, Jan. 21. And what a wow it was. Alanis Morissette’s album “Jagged Little Pill” became a world-wide hit when it was released, a collection of angsty cries…
DISNEY’S ALADDIN Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – It’s colorful, its fun and puts you in a good mood. No, it’s not a Holiday show but “Disney’s Aladdin” has the same mood-lifting effect, delighting audiences with colorful costumes, lively production numbers, and a few more of those wonderful Alan Menken-Howard Ashman songs than the Disney movie, all of…
COME FROM AWAY Musical at Fox Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – When 9/11 happened, the whole world was in shock but amid all the horror, tales of bravery and kindness also emerged. One of those was about 7000 stranded airline passengers diverted to Newfoundland, Canada, after American airspace was shut down, who found unexpected kindness from the people of small town…