Tag: musical
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Congratulations, Get Rich!
By Merlynn Tong HIGH EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Drama It’s the Opening Night: Seventh Night of Chinese New Year (AKA Human Day) Extravaganza at the Money Money Karaoke Bar. But the mood is sombre. Karaoke bar entrepreneur, Mandy (Merlynn Tong), is curled up on a podium. Her despair is palpable. Her boyfriend, Xavier (Zac…
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Here You Come Again
CATERPILLAR EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐ The Drama Kevin is a man struggling with life. His boyfriend, Jeremy, is ghosting him. The flame appears to be dying out. He yearns to be a stand-up comedian, but his dreams have stalled. And – as if losing love and livelihood were not enough – we’re in the middle…
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Back to the Future
CATERPILLAR EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐ The Drama If, somehow, you do not know the story…take this as your friendly spoiler alert! It’s 1985 and Doc Emmett Brown (Roger Bart) has built a time machine…from a DeLorean. It may have taken 30 years – since he fell from a toilet and hit his head and saw…
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Just For One Day
SUPREME EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Drama It’s 2025 – a mere 40 years since Live Aid – and Jemma is leaving home to attend university. Her mother, Suzanne, has slipped the Live Aid picture book into her backpack. Just as something to help Jemma remember her mum. But Jemma knows nothing about Live Aid. The event may live within…
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Hadestown
CATERPILLAR ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐ The Drama It’s love at first sight in Hadestown. Orpheus (Noah Mullins) is a poet and a songwriter. Eurydice (Abigail Adriano) is his muse. Famine abounds and the young lovers live in poverty. But there’s warmth to be found in the Hadestown jazz and blues bar where Hermes (Christine Anu) plays master of ceremonies…
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Chicago
CATERPILLAR EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Dramatic Premise Hello, suckers! It’s 1920’s prohibition-era Chicago. It’s a time of vaudeville, chorus girls, jazz, adultery and murder. A time when the line between criminal intent and celebrity is blurred. Roxie Hart is married to hapless mechanic, Amos. But she’s having an affair with Fred Casely. When Fred…
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Grease the Musical
COMFORTABLE EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐️⭐️ The Dramatic Premise It’s Rydell High School in 1959. It’s the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies. It’s a time of teenage rebellion. Danny Zuko regales his friends with risqué stories of his summer love. Meanwhile, new girl, Sandy Dumbrowski, is introduced to the Pink Ladies and discloses that she, too,…
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In the Heights
CATERPILLAR EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Dramatic Premise It’s almost July 4th in Washington Heights, NYC. At centre stage stands a bodega run by Usnavi de la Vega with the occasional assistance of his delinquent cousin, Sonny. Stage right features the Rosario Cab Company, where Kevin and Camila despatch taxis to and from the neighbourhood.…
