author: Chris Pence
Something in the Glade There: Into The Woods at 2nd Star Productions
We all remember those classic fairy tales from our childhoods, always ending with âHappily Ever After.â But what happens after Happily Ever After? Into The Woods ventures into the forest of our feelings and yearns to determine what exactly weâre saying when we mutter âI wishâ to the brightest evening star.
The world is cruel. The world is ugly. But there are times and there are people when the world is notâ and at its cruelest, itâs still the only world weâve got. Sing the bellsâŠbellsâŠbellsâŠbellsâŠbellsâŠbellsâ Bells of Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church!? Iâm not sure those are the lyrics that Stephen Schwartz scribbled down initially, but you can hear the bellsâ of the phenomenal orchestra, the stellar choir, and the extraordinary castâ in their current resplendent production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Come spirit! Come charm! Come days that are warm! Come magical spellâ they will help you get well! Come to their garden for the most extraordinary theatrical experience that is so stunning, so professional, and so polished youâll find it hard to believe that itâs a community organization and playing in a church nonetheless! The Secret Garden now live in living color is appearing through the weekend of March 17th with the Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church and it is beyond remarkable,
Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lotâŠ
But the Grinch, who lived just north of Whovilleâ did not!
Now Pasadena Theatre Company loves Christmasâ the whole Christmas season
And everyone knows whyâ they have so many different reasons!
Theyâve got the memory of Chuck Dick, the spirited glue of PTC
Theyâve got friends, family, and loved onesâ just like you and like me!
How would you write your story? Would you tell the truth or a lie? Can your story change someone else or even yourself? Do you truly remember your past or is your memory altered by your perspective? So many questions to ask, a multitude of outcomes, and for a show that last 2 hours and 20 minutes plus an intermission, too much time spent unnecessarily exploring how to transmit answers. The Babylon Line by Richard Greenburg and currently being produced by The Colonial Players of Annapolis has a strong cast that does the best that they can with a show that cannot find its voice and struggles to find a conclusion to the problems proposed.
Fah who foraze! Dah who doraze! Welcome, Christmas, come this way! Fa who foraze! Dah who doraze! Welcome Christmas, Christmas day! Itâs Pasadena Theatre Companyâs turn to trim up the tree with Christmas stuff, like bingle bells and whofoo fluff! Their trimming up the town with their production of Dr. Seussâ How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Directed by Chuck Dick with Musical Direction by Lindsey Miller, this time-honored animated Christmas classic from 1966,
When your trust is all but shattered, when your faith is all but killedâ because every company and their brother all across the state of Maryland seem to be turning out productions of Stephen Schwartzâ pre-Wicked musical wonder, fear not! And prepare ye the way of Chuck Dick, whoâ like Lazarusâ has risen with strength and fortitude to set Pasadena Theatre Company back on its feet! And what better way to do it than with an iconic and textbook production of Godspell?