Ask me how to describe this whole beautiful thing? Well, if I were a bell I’d go ding, dong, ding, dong, diiing! And ring the bells they do, for that splashy, lush Frank Loesser musical, Guys & Dolls. Who’s ringing bells? Tidewater Players, that’s who. It’s a cute and campy way to close out their 2024/2025 mainstage season and it’s got a lot of adorable little moments and some stellar performances that are worth taking a gamble on seeing!
They’ll love you— a bushel and a peck! A bushel and a peck and a huge around the neck! A hug around the neck and a barrel and a heap! A barrel and a heap and they’re talking in their sleep— about you! You guessed it! It’s time to sit down with Miss Adelaide and her Hot Box Dancers! Carrying on for part three of the Luck Be a Lady interview series featuring important players in Guys &
We got the horse right here! It’s name is— what? Not Paul Revere? Not Valentine? Not Epitaph? Then what the good googly-moogly are their names? Benny Southstreet, Rusty Charlie, and Nicely-Nicely Johnson? What the heck kinda horse names are those? Oh they’re not horses? Oooh. Well that explains a lot. Time to shoot crap— or crap shoot? Take your pick— with the Fugue Fellas— Rusty Charlie, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, and Benny Southstreet on their time spent with Guys &
I’m reviewing— the situation! Or as the case may be— the production! Of Oliver! at Tidewater Players this spring. And it is not your grandma’s Oliver! which is arguably one of the best things that can be said for a production of this show, as so many people write it off as either a children’s show or Annie with boys. This production is neither of those things and I’ll raise all the flagons of ale in the tavern in a grateful cheer to that!
The grass is green and dense! On the right side of the fence! And it’s a fine life! A fine life— to be doing Oliver! at Tidewater Players this spring. You’re always going to get the raw and nitty gritty of a dark show when it comes to one directed by Bambi Johnson and that’s what we’re here for! Sitting down with Ryan Geiger and Emily Jewett, playing Bill Sikes and Nancy, respectively,