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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Lifting the Veil on Valhalla: An Inside Look at Lyric's "Ring" Cycle by Dennis Polkow

"The piece is so rich that the most important thing for me to say is 'Once Upon a Time.'"

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]

Monday, May 6, 2013

Review: Oklahoma!/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

When Renée Fleming was announced as Lyric Opera's creative consultant in December of 2010, she related that the company would have an "annual commitment to American musical theater" beginni…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:48PM[SHARE]

Monday, April 29, 2013

Review: South Pacific/Marriott Theatre by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED There is a lot of Richard Rodgers being heard around town this spring, from the rarely heard Rodgers and Hart "Pal Joey" at Porchlight and the first-ever Rodgers and Hammerstein …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:57PM[SHARE]

Monday, April 22, 2013

Review: MarÃa de Buenos Aires/Chicago Opera Theater by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED One of the problems with being the new impresario in town who conducts, directs and simultaneously runs another opera company on the West Coast is catching your breath long enoug…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:42PM[SHARE]

Monday, April 15, 2013

Review: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED Heavily promoted as two words you don't hear together very often, i.e., a "mariachi opera," "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna" ["To cross the face of the moon"] is actually a play with …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:38PM[SHARE]

Monday, April 8, 2013

Review: Catch Me If You Can/Broadway In Chicago by Dennis Polkow

They come without warning, those occasional Non-Equity shows that Broadway InÂ ChicagoÂ manages to slip into its lineup. They are usually classics or revivals popular enough to be relati…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:28PM[SHARE]

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

How It Begins: Composer of "Big Fish" Hopes to Reel in an Emotional Whopper by Dennis Polkow

By Dennis Polkow Andrew Lippa, the composer of "Big Fish," has been very busy readying the show for its pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago. "'Big Fish' is a joyful celebration of life an…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM[SHARE]

Friday, March 29, 2013

Review: A Streetcar Named Desire/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED One of the great difficulties in bringing an iconic contemporary play to the opera house is securing permission from the playwright, without which, an opera is not possible. In t…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:40PM[SHARE]

Monday, March 25, 2013

Review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert/Broadway In Chicago by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED The touring version of the Broadway production of the Australian jukebox musical based on the 1994 Australian film has landed at the Auditorium Theatre. The film “The Adven…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:37AM[SHARE]

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Review: Aspects of Love/Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED The early works of Andrew Lloyd Webber incorporated rock and pop idioms into the Broadway musical that, taken with the punchy lyrics of his early partner Tim Rice and a through-c…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM[SHARE]

Monday, March 4, 2013

Review: Rigoletto/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED Verdi's "Rigoletto" is so popular and done so often that it has become a festering ground for avant-garde directorial concepts that more often than not are bizarrely superimposed…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:30AM[SHARE]

Monday, February 25, 2013

Review: The Fall of the House of Usher/Chicago Opera Theater by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED The Andreas Mitisek era has begun at Chicago Opera Theater. Walking across the stage on crutches with a leg cast at Saturday night's season opening, Mitisek noted that his fall o…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:46PM[SHARE]

Monday, November 26, 2012

Review: Don Pasquale/Lyric Opera by Dennis Polkow

RECOMMENDED Whereas the recent Lyric production of "Werther" was constantly fighting against the music for attention, the production of Donizetti’s "Don Pasquale" that opened Sunday af…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM[SHARE]

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