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Queen of the Mist

By The Feminist Spectator On December 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Queen of the Mist is a new musical by Michael John LaChiusa (Marie Christine, The Wild Party), which the Transport Group produced at the Judson Gym in the West Village last month. Starring the fiercely charismatic Mary Testa, the musical tells the story of Anna “Annie” Edson Taylor (1838 – 1921), the first person to [...]

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Spiderman and Sister Act

By The Feminist Spectator On October 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment

After all the press brouhaha about Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark for these many years, and the vituperative reviews from most of the mainstream critics, I was surprised to find the show so benign when I finally saw it. Thanks to Jenny Slattery, who’s a stalwart assistant stage manager onSpiderman, I wrangled house seats and a [...]

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The FS Saw . . . The Shaggs

By The Feminist Spectator On May 28, 2011 · 1 Comment

I saw The Shaggs Philosophy of the World at Playwrights Horizons on Wednesday (May 25, 2011), in its second preview performance. Based on a true story, The Shaggs describes how Dot, Betty, and Helen Wiggins, sisters from Fremont, NH, were coerced into becoming a band by their mercurial, rather psychotic father, Austin, whose plan for his daughters’ [...]

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Glee

By The Feminist Spectator On September 21, 2009 · 4 Comments

Fox TV’s Glee began its formal run two weeks ago, after attracting a great deal of buzz from its summer premiere teaser. And rightly so. Produced by Ryan Murphy, the creator of the much racier but equally off beat and refreshingly bizarre series Nip/Tuck, Glee’s pleasures come from its characters’ slightly insane quirks and the actors’ fully committed, somehow [...]

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The Wiz

By The Feminist Spectator On July 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

City Center’s Encores! series has recently extended its season of staged readings of rarely revived musicals into the summer, outside of its typical three-show run in the spring. Two years ago, a summer remount of Gypsy triumphed with Patti LuPone in the lead, in a production directed by Arthur Laurents that went on to garner multiple Tony [...]

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