Articles Tagged With: Johnny Drew

Godspell at Stand Up For Theatre

author: Chris Pence

Thou That Humble Themselves: Godspell at Stand Up For…Theatre

Prepare Ye The Way! Stand Up For…Theatre presents a fresh, upbeat take on the Gospel of Matthew with Godspell, a Broadway classic for the ages. Director Ed Higgins & Producer Grant Myers bring the story of Jesus to a new generation of theatregoers with a production that will have even the most doubting of Thomases dancing,

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Rent at Laurel Mill Playhouse

author: Leonard Taube

I could give you 525,600 reasons to go see Laurel Mill Playhouse’s production of RENT but that would be silly.  So, I’ll give you one.  How about love?

Jonathan Larson’s masterpiece chronicles the lives of several struggling young artists/activists/musicians in New York set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic.  With roots loosely in the 1896 opera La Boheme, Larson’s tale is set in the then-thriving Alphabet City in Lower Manhattan’s East Village in New York. 

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Something’s Afoot at St. Gabriel’s Miracle Players

author: Anthony Case

New experiences can be a tad scary. That’s how I felt going into a theater I had only heard of in passing, in a school I had never heard of, for a show I’ve never heard of, in 10 degree weather. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see an utterly charming show in a very welcoming environment. Situated in what I assume is the gymnasium of the Watershed School, on the campus of St.

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Olivianna Angulo (left) as George with Austin Barnes (center) as Robbie Hart, and Johnny Drew (right) as Sammy in Artistic Synergy of Baltimore's The Wedding Signer

The Wedding Singer at Artistic Synergy of Baltimore

author: Erin Klarner

 

The Wedding Singer at Artistic Synergy of Baltimore, the company-in-residence at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Rosedale, is directed by Bryan Brown, assistant directed by Lou Otero, and music directed by Darwin Ray, with choreography by Suzy Zacker.  This stage musical – book by Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy, music by Matthew Sklar, and lyrics also by Chad Beguilin – is based on a popular 1998 movie (of the same title) which this reviewer has never seen,

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Stand Up For...Theatre ????Lilou Altman

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Stand Up For…Theatre

COMMUNITY— noun. “a unified body of individuals such as: people with common interests living within a particular area broadly; a group of people with a common characteristic or interest; a body of persons with common interest scattered through a larger society; a group linked by a common policy.” Stand Up For…Theatre’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is fostering a real sense of dedication and commitment to the local theatre community,

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