Don’t hate them because they’re beautiful. Or because they’re bitchy, conniving and too full of their own youthful coolness for their own good. Instead, love them for all that, and because the creative team of “Bring It On: The Musical” has pulled off the improbable task of turning a mediocre cheerleader movie into a dynamic new musical that bristles with talent and potential.
“Bring It On: The Musical,” having its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre through February 20, is part of the Alliance pipeline of developing new commercial musicals for Broadway, which has included “The Color Purple,” “Aida” and “Sister ...
You can have realistic depictions of gang members cursing, swaggering, fighting and killing one another. Or you can have them singing songs by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim and dancing ballet-influenced choreography by Jerome Robbins. You just can’t have both on the same stage.
The revival of “West Side Story” that opened Tuesday night at Atlanta's Fox Theatre and plays through Sunday has been promoted as a rougher, rawer telling of the Broadway classic. Arthur Laurents, who wrote the original book and oversaw the new production, said in a statement that “I felt the gangs in the original production were sweet ...
Blue Man Group is the perfect example of how culture frequently operates these days. It started in the early 1990s as a freaky vaudeville-on-acid performance art group off-Broadway: three bald men in matching black clothes, their heads and hands painted cobalt blue, banging drums, flinging paint, eating Twinkies and interacting with the audience.
Twenty years and a whole bunch of “Tonight Show” and YouTube appearances later, they’ve expanded to nine groups, touring and performing permanent shows in places like Las Vegas, not unlike Cirque du Soleil. But they haven’t compromised; the mainstream has just become more willing to embrace their lovable ...
Workers are expected to raise a 10-story, 1,300-seat tent between the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola in downtown Atlanta starting Saturday, January 9, to house an ambitious new multimedia performance of “Peter Pan.” The show will run January 21 through March 20, and Atlanta is the fourth city to see it, following London, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
This “Peter Pan,” a production of threesixty˚entertainment, features 22 live actors in a theater-in-the-round setting, with 360-degree film projections of Edwardian London and Neverland projected throughout the interior of the tent. Tickets run $35-$75, with some discounts for children, and are ...
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Atlanta theater already has the Suzi Bass Awards, an annual ceremony for summing up what’s best and most deserving on the stages of our local companies. ArtsCriticATL would like to offer a somewhat more idiosyncratic look back at the local theater scene in 2010, combining some serious acknowledgments with our own take on the whole biggest-best-most philosophy of year-end reviews. We follow our look back at 2010 theater with a look ahead at 2011 and some of the productions we’re looking forward to -- knowing full well that they are based on very incomplete calendars at ...
The early birds got the freebies in our contest to win two pairs of tickets to attend Cirque du Soleil’s “Ovo” at Atlantic Station on the closing day, January 2. Within minutes of our posting the five-question trivia quiz, entries started coming in to the email account we set up, and we soon had our two winners. The tickets were awarded to the first two people to get all five answers correct.
First, here are the answers to our Cirque trivia quiz:
1. There are 16 tracks on the “Ovo” soundtrack CD.
2. The fake Cirque show name was Zucchetto, which is actually ...
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