Entries tagged with "theatre"

There is no Jekyll, only Hyde

posted by srah on August 3, 2003 10:09 PM

Tags: books, croswell opera house, music, theatre

I think one of the most damaging things you can do to yourself is to read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Having read that, my rigid little mind can't accept people pronouncing Jekyll "jeck-ull" (it's "jeek-ull") or conveying Hyde as a huge green monster, and it makes me completely insane. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding! I saw Jekyll & Hyde today at the Croswell Opera House and was extremely disappointed because a) it wasn't anything like the book, b) it wasn't very well written, and c) it wasn't a very good production. This was...

srah on Broadway

posted by srah on August 5, 2002 10:27 AM

Tags: acting, croswell opera house, musicals, my fair lady, theatre

I saw My Fair Lady last night at the Croswell Opera House in Adrian. It was okay, except the orchestra STANK as usual (if anyone in charge of decision-making is out there, either raise some money to hire professional musicians or get some canned music, because this crap really takes away from the rest of the performance) and no one could handle any accent. I think that's the most important part of My Fair Lady. If Eliza doesn't have a convincing Cockney accent, Freddy doesn't sound upper-class enough, Alfie Doolittle has a southern-US accent and even Henry Higgins can't talk...