(KGUN) - You're never too young to learn about the Sonoran Desert. ![]() For tickets and information call 51 or visit their website.TUCSON, Ariz. “Urinetown” plays at the Mac-Haydn Theatre, Route 203, Chatham, NY through July 17. There’ll be nothing else like it all season anywhere. If, like me, you admire talent, this is a show you have to see while you can. He, Ross, and Dvorsky keep this particular musical active and alive even when the technical odds are against them. I swear to you that there is nothing this actor cannot accomplish. Singing, or chatting with Little Sally, a lovely Sarah Chiu, he keeps the play on an even and real keel, and the show stays afloat as it must. Once again actor Gabe Belyeu saves the show with his sincerity and honest portrayal, this time of the ubiquitous Officer Lockstock. Andrew Gmoser’s lighting is among his most moody and appropriate. Set designer Erin Kiernan has created a horrible world in which to play the play, while costume designer Bethany Marx has clothed the company in hideous rags and familiar upper class outfits that are just right for this show. Compton employed tricks of all sorts to accomplish the play’s motivations including spray cans of smoke, sometimes even handled by the actor playing the moment. In spite of the sound it was well handled by the ensemble of five musicians, well conducted by musical director Eric Shorey.ĭirector Trey Compton, along with choreographer Elizabeth McGuire, kept the show moving at all times. The love story in this show is an awkward one, but Laing and Ross carried it off well. This Bertolt Brecht parody play benefitted from the sincerity of their playing as did the faux- Kurt-Weill score which lapsed into period mocking in its rhythms and scoring. Ross, like Dvorsky, has a strong voice that carried nicely in spite of the awkward miking situation that plagued the company, and so his many musical numbers made an impact. Additionally, Bobby loves Caldwell’s daughter, Hope, nicely played by Nina Laing. Dvorsky’s style and manner in the show is stolen from or even very reminiscent of current politicians, but his work-vocal and otherwise-is divinely derived.Īctor Kylan Ross plays Caldwell’s most bitter enemy, Bobby Strong whose own father has been dragged off to Urinetown as punishment for disobeying the law. For a show written in 2001 this is essentially sentient. Cladwell is the ultimate bad guy, trading humanity for dollars, corrupting the government, abusing his followers and helpers, abandoning his daughter to an uncertain fate, and lying to anyone who will listen to him. ![]() George Dvorsky plays the villain and he is marvelous. But the brilliant writing played in the hands of highly capable actors makes the difference. While the story is about what the title suggests, it really isn’t. In spite of a 963 performance run on Broadway, and three Tony Awards, she may be right. ![]() ![]() Rather than do their work, let me just tell you that Little Sally objects to the title, thinking that it will discourage audiences from attending. They work this gimmick throughout the play. The script has two principal characters tell the story and appear in the story: Little Sally and Office Lockstock (his partner is Office Barrrel). I hope that the rest of the run of this show will be better managed and that larger audiences will be able to appreciate the important message the show imparts to our much-tested time. That said, the under-attended opening night audience seemed to understand how good the work was by the company and they rightfully applauded them for their efforts. This show is intelligent it is unusual it requires an audience to listen. He, or she, didn’t ride gain and never punched the voices so that spoken lines and often sung lines could not make it through the orchestration, even of underscore. They worked much harder than they should have had to because they had an ill- prepared tech working the sound booth. Written by Greg Kotis, directed by Trey ComptonĪ great many talented people worked their butts off to put across one of the most intelligent and fanciful musicals in the canon at the Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham, New York.
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