Articles Tagged With: Corey Brown

The Sound of Music at September Song

Reviews August 11, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

I have confidence in musicals! I have confidence in rain. I have confidence that September Song will get to play again! And play again they did (despite the rain’s best efforts!) after a live-theatre hiatus, September Song Musical Theatre has returned to the stage their much-anticipated production of Rogers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. And no storm or last minute venue-change is going to hold them back. Directed by Stephen Strosnider with Musical Direction by Kelly Stoneberger and Choreography by Amy Appleby,

Nunsense at Players On Air

Reviews March 12, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

Nunsense is habit forming— and it’s a habit you should all take up again! Well, the habit of going to see live theatre, in person, as a real audience, in an actual auditorium! And Players On Air is serving up a bucket, barrel, and big old vat of laughs (be grateful they aren’t serving Sister Julia’s— Child of God— vichyssoise soup!) and it is exactly the kind of feel-good, laugh-out-loud humor that the world needs right now.

Three Little Birds at MET’s Fun Company

Reviews September 3, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

One love! One heart! Let’s get together and feel alright! Everyone could stand to feel alright right about now. And what better way to do it than by coming out to see the MET Fun Company’s production of Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds? Directed and choregraphed by Ray Hatch, with Musical Direction by Valerie A. Higgs, this six-person ensemble on stage is jammin’! They’re jammin’ and they want you to come jammin’ too!

Cade Macfee (center) as William Barfee and the cast of Spelling Bee. Photo: Laura Wonsala

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Players On Air’s The Collegiate Players

Reviews August 5, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Superb— (adjective.) “excellent; impressively splendid; marked to the highest degree by grandeur, excellence, brilliance, or competence.” The Collegiate Players, the college-arm of Players On Air, has the most superb production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee appearing on their stage for just four performances, this weekend only! S-U-P-E-R-B. Directed by Justin Patterson, with Musical Direction by Maggie Flynn-Lebischak, and Choreography by Abby Upshaw, this delightfully comical musical, a tried-n-true musical chestnut of the more recent stage vintage,

Puffs at Small Town Stars Theatre

Reviews July 30, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Why be one thing when you can be everything else? Not a Smart? Not a Brave? Not a Snake? Well, don’t worry, there’s still the Puffs! They’ll take you! They take everyone. They’re no one’s favorite house and they fail… a lot. But it’s okay. They’re Puffs. (HI!) Small Town Stars Theatre is getting its first show of the 2021 season underway in the new Panther Performing Arts Center (formerly North Carroll High School) this summer.

Niagara at Well Played Theater

Reviews July 18, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

Hey, pal— feelin’ blue? Don’t know what to do? Hey, pal— I mean you! C’mon and— well…take a barrel over the falls? No job? Cupboard bare? One room, no one there? Hey, pal! Don’t despair! Don’t you want to— go over Niagara on a jet ski? Come on over in your own machine! A brand new musical is taking the scene, and everybody’s got the right to their dreams— even if those dreams involve soaring,

The Little Mermaid at September Song

Reviews September 5, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

The seaweed is always greener, on somebody else’s stage. You’ve
seen a bunch of productions, cause last year it was all the rage. But look at
the show that’s happenin’— right there on the Carroll Arts Center floor, such
different things about it— what more is you looking for? The Little Mermaid
is splashing on stage as the 45th anniversary production of
September Song. Directed by Debbie Mobley with Musical Direction by Kelly
Stoneberger,

Jessica Bennett (left) as Esmerelda and Sam Kobren (right) as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Jeri Tidwell Photography)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Toby’s Dinner Theatre

Reviews April 10, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

Here it is— the moment you’ve been waiting for! Here it is—
you know exactly what’s in store! A story like you’ve never seen or heard
before! Now’s the time to head to Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia to see the
DC-regional premiere of The Hunchback of
Notre Dame. Directed by Toby Orenstein & Mark Minnick, with Musical
Direction by Ross Scott Rawlings, this musical masterpiece inspired by the
Victor Hugo novel with musical selections from the Disney animated feature film
presents a hauntingly beautiful tale with striking,

Young Frankenstein at Toby’s Dinner Theatre

Reviews January 26, 2018 Amanda N. Gunther

If you’re blue— and don’t know where to go— why don’t you go where theatre’s fine?

See Young Frankenstein!

Different songs to really please the ear— dancing feet to watch and you’ll cheer— it’s sublime!

See Young Frankenstein!

Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper! Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper— it’s SUPERDUPER!

You won’t get to see a better show— and Columbia is the place to go— take their word and mine!

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Toby’s Dinner Theatre

Reviews June 21, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

Way, way back many decades ago— not long after the city of Columbia began! Toby Orenstein started up a dinner theatre— the finest one in all of Maryland! Toby’s! Dinner and show! That’s the place— this summer— to go! Toby’s! Dinner and show! They’re showing Joseph, just thought you should know! It’s a dazzling production of many colors, this Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Directed by Mark Minnick and Toby Orenstein.