PREVIEW: From Vermont Hell to World Hit: Hadestown‘s Journey to Broadway (Orpheum Theatre/HTT) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 The North American touring cast of the musical Hadestown, which plays at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN from March 15-20, 2022. Photo by T Charles Erickson. It took 13 years for the musical Hadestown to go to hell on Broadway. If that's not poetic, the subject certainly is: a struggling musician weds
REVIEW: Enjoying Waitress is as Easy as Pie (Ordway) Arts Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Jisel Soleil Ayon in the national touring production of Waitress: The Musical, now playing at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Jeremy Daniel. If you have a sweet tooth for beautiful music, powerful stories, and a lot of sugar, then Waitress: The Musical is just
PREVIEW: Waitress at the Ordway Arts Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 Gabriella Marzetta as Dawn and Brian Lundy as Ogie in the national tour of Waitress: The Musical, which opens tonight in St. Paul, MN. Photo by Jeremy Daniel. The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is ending its Broadway show season with a bake-off. Pie baking, to be precise – a
REVIEW: “She Rescues Him Back” – But What More? Pretty Woman: The Musical (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - March 1, 2022March 10, 2022 Kyle Taylor Parker starred in Pretty Woman: The Musical, which played at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis in February. Photo by Matthew Murphy/MurphyMade. Pretty Woman: The Musical follows what has become a steady diet of revamping successful movies into Broadway musicals. The 1990 movie was a big box office success, catapulting
PREVIEW: Skylark’s Eugene Onegin and Pushkin’s Operatic Life Arts Music Opera by Basil Considine - February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 A sketch by Alexander Pushkin for Eugene Onegin, showing the dueling scene. On March 25, Skylark Opera Theatre opens its pandemic-delayed production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. This vivid opera, adapting the Pushkin novel of the same name, explores the full force of Russian Romanticism in its story and score. It
BREAKING NEWS: SPCO Cancels Neighborhood Series Concerts Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 25, 2022 The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in concert. Photo by Chelsea Tischler. With Omicron cases besieging the public in all 50 U.S. states and most of U.S. territories, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has decided to cancel all of its Neighborhood Series concerts through March 13. Concerts at the Ordway Concert Hall
REVIEW: The Bob James Trio at 50 Years of Music Making (Dakota Jazz Club) Arts Music by Brian Bix - January 22, 2022January 22, 2022 The many faces of jazz keyboardist, arranger, and music producer Bob James, whose namesake trio headlined at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis last night and returns this evening. Last night, the Bob James Trio played the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, almost a half century after the ensemble won the
REVIEW: Don’t Run Away from Come From Away (Orpheum/Hennepin Theatre Trust) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Boo Segersin - January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 The touring company of Come From Away. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Last night, Come From Away finally opened at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. This show, about an ephemeral moment of human generosity in a community two decades ago, opened on Broadway in 2017. The show earned Christopher Ashley a Tony for Best
BREAKING NEWS: SPCO Cancels Week’s Concerts, Implements New COVID-19 Test Regimen Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra is one of several organizations to revisit internal procedures for COVID-19 testing in light of recent increases in breakthrough infections. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has cancelled its January 5-7 concerts. With COVID-19 numbers spiking across the world, the ensemble announced today that it will implement
BREAKING NEWS: COVID-19 Cancels Remaining Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Performances Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 The cast of the national touring company of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, whose run at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN has been interrupted due to COVID-19. As the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer smashed records and amassed an impressive 42 Top 40 hits, but