by Rebecca Rudnyk – This may be wildly inappropriate. Knowingly stepping out of my lane. I write about theatre. But writers need to write, out of...
Continue reading...Broadway
Unique Revival of ‘Once on This Island’ Tours Through ASU Gammage
Once on This Island originally premiered on Broadway in 1990. Based on the 1985 novel “My Love My Love” by Rosa Guy, which is ultimately based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” the musical is the brainchild of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty of Ragtime and Anastasia fame. The revival premiered at Circle in the Square in late 2017, winning a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and receiving several other notable nominations…
Continue reading...Experience ‘Wicked’ at ASU Gammage
by Rebecca Rudnyk
–
I have a confession. From the outset, I must admit that my perspective on Wicked is well established and unwavering…
Continue reading...‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Does Everything Right at ASU Gammage
by Rebecca Rudnyk
–
The Play That Goes Wrong is a play within a play. A college production with a small but mighty cast, making due as things go devastatingly awry. Bringing back memories of shows from childhood when everyone invests their entire soul into a production, building sets from scraps and piecing together costumes from Goodwill finds and parents closets. Desperate to making it work. Improvising as things fall apart along the way. Yet this is not a cobbled-together, low budget passion project. It is a Broadway show with a Tony Award-winning set, perfectly constructed and capable of doing the unimaginable. Accompanied by a script with carefully considered errors yielding hilarious results. And as if that wasn’t enough, there are some very impressive magic tricks sprinkled in for good measure…
Continue reading...Aladdin Brings Spectacular Performance to ASU Gammage
by Rebecca Rudnyk
–
Disney knows how to do Broadway.
They’ve proven it again and again, arguably most successfully with The Lion King which began its run on the Great White Way in 1997 and is ranked amongst the longest running Broadway shows of all time. Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and most recently Frozen. Disney has proven that animated films built on a foundation of magical and unhappenable-happenings can be adapted for the stage and brought to live audiences. Aladdin proves it yet again…
Continue reading...‘Bandstand’ Blows Away Live Movie Theater Audience During Fathom Event
Theatre Critic Rebecca Rudnyk gives her review of ‘Bandstand’ as part of the Fathom Events special engagement showing at movie theaters across America…
Continue reading...Hamilton Comes to Tempe
by Rebecca Rudnyk – So let’s be honest. If you’re reading this, a formal introduction is likely not necessary. In my lifetime as a dedicated theatre nerd,...
Continue reading...