Capitol Theatre, August 11 7.5/10 You’ve seen chandeliers, helicopters and whatever else once passed for spectacle on a stage. That was amateur hour. Aladdin has scenes to make your eyes grow out on stalks and coups de theatre to leave you lying awake wondering how they were done. Then again,…
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AFTER THE FLOOD (MBSG) 8/10 Where was Peter Dutton when we needed him? At some point in the murky past Mikelangelo and the Black Sean Gentlemen slipped into Oz (at night, by boat, no doubt), and have been assiduously undermining our morals ever since. Now they are trying to ingratiate…
Joan Sutherland Theatre, September 6 8.5/10 It seeps through this production as it did through Julie Andrews’ creation of the role of Eliza Doolittle in 1956: warmth. Where most sopranos, whether for musical theatre or opera, exude a glacial beauty, Julie Andrews had the miraculous ability to communicate felicity and…