REVIEW: Unexpectedly Deep Tenderly (Old Log Theatre)

by Basil Considine - March 8, 2019March 8, 2019

Gracie Anderson and C. Ryan Shipley star in Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical at the Old Log Theatre in Excelsior, MN. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. There are jukebox musicals that pass like a piece of cotton candy dissolving on the tongue, and there are jukebox musicals that surprise

REVIEW: Beehive‘s Memory Lane (Old Log Theatre)

by Bev Wolfe - July 12, 2018July 12, 2018

Grace Chermak, Emilee Hassanzadeh, Kiko Laureano, Leslie Vincent, and Erin Nicole Farsté in Beehive: The 60s Musical. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. The Sixties is a very special time for me. I was 3 when the decade began and became a teenager just as the Sixties ended. Groups like

REVIEW: Classic Rockin’ Gals in Beehive: The 60s Musical (Old Log Theatre)

by Basil Considine - July 6, 2018July 7, 2018

The Ensemble (Grace Chermak, Gracie Kay Anderson, Erin Nicole Farsté, Kiko Laureano, Leslie Vincent, Emilee Hassanzadeh, and Allyson Tolbert) gets ready to go-go in the Old Log Theatre's production of Beehives: The 60s Musical. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. The purpose of a musical revue is generally to showcase two things:

PREVIEW: It’s Not All in the Hair in Beehive: The 60s Musical (Old Log Theatre)

by Basil Considine - June 24, 2018June 25, 2018

Allyson Tolbert, Erin Nicole Farsté, and Kiko Laureano in the Old Log Theatre's upcoming production of Beehive: The 60s Musical. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. If you're going to do a musical about the Sixties and it's not going to be Hair, what would you pick? With all the decade's

INTERVIEW: Leslie Vincent on Beehives and the Singing Actor’s Life

by Basil Considine - June 24, 2018June 24, 2018

Singer-actor Leslie Vincent. Photo by Briana Patnode. Beehive: The 60s Musical opens at the Old Log Theatre this Friday, June 29. This period jukebox show stars eight fabulously talented women and features songs such as timeless classics as "My Boyfriend’s Back", "Be My Baby", "Son of a Preacher Man", and "Me

REVIEW: Reliable Horses in Old Log’s Guys and Dolls

by Basil Considine - March 18, 2018June 24, 2018

The famous "Fugue for Tinhorns" in the Old Log Theatre's production of Guys and Dolls. Pictured: Jordan Oxborough, Aaron Booth, and Austin Stole. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. You won't find any surprises in the Old Log Theatre's new production of Guys and Dolls, but that's not why you

INTERVIEW: Grace Chermak on Playing a Doll (in Guys and Dolls)

by Basil Considine - March 10, 2018June 24, 2018

Grace Chermak (second from the left) stars in the Old Log Theatre's upcoming production of Guys and Dolls. Also pictured: Eric Sargent, Charlie Clark, and Kym Chambers Otto. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre. The Old Log Theatre's production of the classic musical Guys and Dolls opens today in Excelsior,

REVIEW: Doo Wop You Will in Life Could Be a Dream (Old Log Theatre)

by Basil Considine - October 20, 2017June 24, 2018

The cast of the Old Log Theatre's production of Life Could Be a Dream. From left to right: Austin Stole, Lucas Wells, Grace Lowe, Eric Sargent, Brian Winter. Those oldies but goodies remind me of you. The songs of the past bring back memories of you. I always remember the first night we

PREVIEW: Life Could Be a Dream is a Doo Wop Fantasia (Old Log Theatre)

by Basil Considine - October 2, 2017June 24, 2018

The cast of the Old Log Theatre's upcoming production of Life Could Be a Dream. From left to right: Austin Stole, Lucas Wells, Grace Lowe, Eric Sargent, Brian Winter. There's something about the music of the 1950s that forms a quintessential part of American nostalgia and culture. This comes in part

REVIEW: Blasts from the Past in Million Dollar Quartet (Old Log Theatre)

by Basil Considine - August 5, 2016June 24, 2018

Eric Morris, Matt Tatone, Frank Moran and Eric Sargent in a publicity photo for the Old Log Theatre's Million Dollar Quartet. Million Dollar Quartet, now playing at the Old Log, is a fun musical romp through rock and roll history. As jukebox musicals go, this one is quite pleasant and thankfully concise;