Newsies: the news is it’s frickin’ fantastic

This show features some of the best musical-theatre choreography I’ve ever seen — and I’m gay and old, so I have seen a lot of musical theatre, my children. Newsies is based on an actual newsboys’ strike that took place in New York City in 1899. Publishers Joseph...

Mamma Mia!: a nest of earworms

Mamma Mia! Here were go again. Mostly, director Shel Piercy’s production of this ABBA jukebox musical is cluttered and loud, but it also contains some really good bits. In the story, 20-year-old Sophie, who lives on a Greek island with her ex-pat mom Donna, is about...