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2006 Stories by Dennis Brown

• Just Married

  published August 9, 2006

  There's applause. And then, at musicals especially, there's applause. The first kind of applause is obligatory. We're conditioned to clap after... More >>

• Lube Job

  published August 2, 2006

  It's probably too much to hope that the once-quaint rock & roll musical Grease could retain its original innocence. In the years... More >>

• On the Rocks, No Twist

  published August 2, 2006

  Everybody knows Lionel Bart's Oliver! is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' nineteenth-century novel Oliver Twist. But... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 26, 2006

  Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) The title pretty much says it all, even as it sets the tone for all these crazy family deathbed high... More >>

• Basic White

  published July 26, 2006

  When the much-anticipated Irving Berlin musical White Christmas debuted at Radio City Music Hall in October 1954, the New York... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published July 19, 2006

  Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) The title pretty much says it all, even as it sets the tone for all these crazy family deathbed high... More >>

• Hot Numbers

  published July 19, 2006

  What are the best Broadway musicals of all time? That's a hypothetical that theater buffs spend countless hours ruminating about. But Frank... More >>

• Lart Imitates Ife

  published July 19, 2006

  You've probably never heard of Lennox Robinson's Drama at Inish, currently being staged by Act Inc. — which is precisely why... More >>

• Born to be Wilde

  published July 12, 2006

  Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is a perennial satire of summertime love. In the current Act Inc. revival, that love... More >>

• A Wizened Wiz

  published July 12, 2006

  The most frequently staged children's musical in Muny history is back. The current incarnation of The Wizard of Oz is the eleventh... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 28, 2006

  1776 Reviewed in this issue. Aida Exciting performances by Broadway... More >>

• Philadelphia Story

  published June 28, 2006

  After the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, John Adams proposed that the birth of America should be celebrated with "parades, bells,... More >>

• Funky Cold Medea

  published June 28, 2006

  The Orange Girls don't play it safe. Last October this fledgling company, composed of actresses Brooke Edwards, Michelle Hand and Meghan Maguire,... More >>

• Reign Man

  published June 21, 2006

  The Muny has opened its 88th season with a colorful production of a venerable favorite. Perhaps it's no surprise that this is the eleventh staging... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 14, 2006

  The Barber of Seville Opera Theatre of Saint Louis opened its 31st season with a brilliantly subversive update of Gioacchino Rossini's most... More >>

• Reich Retch

  published June 14, 2006

  At the opening-night performance of this twentieth-anniversary season at Stages St. Louis, executive producer Jack Lane took to the stage to... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published June 7, 2006

  The Barber of Seville Opera Theatre of Saint Louis opened its 31st season with a brilliantly subversive update of Gioacchino Rossini's most... More >>

• Clothes by Any Other Name

  published June 7, 2006

  Most people don't know that a theater legend has been in town for the past couple of weeks. Jane Greenwood, who has designed the costumes for the... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 31, 2006

  The Barber of Seville Opera Theatre of Saint Louis opened its 31st season with a brilliantly subversive update of Gioacchino Rossini's most... More >>

• Down in Front!

  published May 31, 2006

  You've seen your share of show-stopping musical numbers. Now ask yourself this: When was the last time you saw a show-sitting number? At the end... More >>

• Tune Town

  published May 17, 2006

  There's a parade in town this week and next, and its name is Tommy Tune. It doesn't matter that he's often been here in the past, at the Muny and... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 10, 2006

  Bedroom Farce Four couples, three beds, one night: Consider the possibilities. British playwright Alan Ayckbourn is a master at exploring... More >>

• Child's Play

  published May 10, 2006

  Last year's stirring Deaf West production of Big River at the Fox Theatre proved one of the theatrical high points of 2005, and the Big... More >>

• Opportunity Knocks

  published May 10, 2006

  The current New Jewish Theatre mounting of James Sherman's From Door to Door is more than a mere play (mere though it is): this... More >>

• Dancin' Fuel

  published May 3, 2006

  Jerry Mitchell saw his first Broadway musical, The Wiz, in the late 1970s when he was still a teenager living in Paw Paw, Michigan. "As a... More >>