In one of the most quoted movie lines ever, a girl at a dance in the movie “The Wild One” asks biker Marlon Brando, “Hey, Johnnie, what are you rebellin’ against?”
Replies Johnnie: “Whaddya got?”
Well, in “Hair,” you get LBJ, draft cards, the war in Vietnam and square parents who are uptight over their sons’ rebellious long hair: “shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen.” It's a time capsule of issues that resonated in 1967, when the “Tribal Love-Rock Musical” premiered.
But you also get the willingness of old people to send young people off to die in wars that may not accomplish anything, ...
Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” is an actors’ play, with two roles that allow for a rip-roaring evening: raw sexuality, rough physical tussling, comic bits and wistful monologues. Whether it’s a great play for the audience, despite its generally strong reputation, may be another matter.
But Atlanta audiences who come to the latest local version, by True Colors Theatre Company, will do so for the all-star casting: Kenny Leon as Eddie and Jasmine Guy as Mae. It’s the acting equivalent of being able to watch Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson in their prime going one on one for an evening. In ...
With good parody, the more you know about the original, the more you can appreciate the jokes. So “Forbidden Broadway Greatest Hits: Vol. 1,” which just opened at Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell and runs through April 24, will appeal most to hard-core Broadway musical theater geeks.
GET and director/performer Don Farrell have cherry-picked from the hundreds of “Forbidden Broadway” spoofs over the years to create a winning (trademark pending by Charlie Sheen) evening of frequently hilarious song and dance.
Farrell is joined by local performers Wendy Melkonian, Googie Uterhardt and Marcie Millard. They don’t always nail the impersonations of show folk ...
When you take a trip, you can usually count on some pleasant, unexpected surprises and on some parts you would just as soon forget. So it goes with “Travelin’ Black,” a new musical having its world premiere through April 16 at Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit.
Billed as “a celebration of how dance and music have initiated and sustained the journey of African-Americans through time and place and how these creative gifts have empowered them to change the world for the better” (whew!), the show is conceived, choreographed and directed by Patdro Harris, with original music and musical direction by S. Renee Clark, ...
Avery Brooks is known to his fans mainly as Commander Sisko on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and as Hawk on the TV series “Spenser: For Hire.” But since 1982, the imposing actor has also been playing Renaissance Man Paul Robeson in a one-man show, “Paul Robeson: A Play With Music” by Phillip Hayes Dean.
Brooks has performed the show only once in Atlanta in all those years, at the National Black Arts Festival in the early 1990s. He returns for a four-day run March 24-27 at Georgia Shakespeare, to kick off its 26th season. The shows will be performed in Oglethorpe University’s ...
The year 1975 did not bequeath to us a lot of popular culture that has stood the test of time. Best sellers included “Shogun” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” TV was all about “Laverne & Shirley” and “Starsky and Hutch,” and the most popular songs practically define dated cheese: “Love Will Keep Us Together” and “Rhinestone Cowboy.”
So it’s surprising how well the biggest Broadway musical of that year, “A Chorus Line,” has stood the test of time. It’s not as fresh as it once was -- who is at age 36? -- and creaks a bit here and there. But ...
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