ARTS and THEATERSwimming With Sharks
West Side Story opens Tuesday at Orpheum West Side Story’s Sharks are killers, says Arthur Laurents, who wrote the original book and directed the latest revival of Leonard Bernstein’s classic musical. That means German Santiago, as Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks, plays one tough Puerto Rican. Born in Mexico City and raised in Houston, playing a killer Shark wasn’t what his mother had in mind when she...
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Stones Talk, Biggest Hairy Baby
I’m going to call 444.1000 and ask the daily’s circulation department to send me a different edition of the World-Herald. Mine didn’t carry any reviews of the three theater openings last weekend. I saw Eurydice on preview night at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and hoped somebody would explain Sarah Ruhl’s postmodern treatment to me. It doesn’t help that too much thinking about anything being...
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Two Giants
Fences and Talk Radio in review by Warren Francke Neither is tall, but both men tower like stage giants in starkly different roles. In Fences, John Beasley plays Troy, scarred by an abusive father and the mid-century bigotry that denied his baseball talent. In Talk Radio, Jerry Longe is far removed from his annual Scrooge role. In sunglasses and Led Zeppelin T-shirt, he’s Barry Champlain, a rock-star radio jock...
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Almost Paradise
Footloose song and dance shines at Playhouse Let’s begin with an important admission. I am all but culturally illiterate when it comes to ’80s cinema and its legacy. Having spent that decade knee-deep in raising kids, my world was one of diaper changes, school activities, Scouts and youth sports. When we did go to movies, such lightweight fare as the Brat Pack genre that included The Breakfast Club, Pretty in...
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How Glory Goes
Dan Tracy plays Floyd Collins at Creighton From Tony in West Side Story and Siegfried in Das Barbecu to Jesus in Godspell, Dan Tracy isn’t new to musical theater leads at Creighton University and elsewhere. But his title role in Floyd Collins is “the most unique role I’ve played.” Only lucky Lindy himself, Charles Lindbergh, captured more headlines in the 1920s than the Kentucky spelunker trapped in a...
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