Tag Archives: musicals

Let the Broadway Buzz Begin

Michael James Scott (Center) and cast of 'Something Rotten.' Photo by Joan Marcus.

Detail of a photo by Joan Marcus: Michael James Scott (Center) and cast of ‘Something Rotten.’ By PAM HARBAUGH Well, really…the buzz has been out there for a while now. It’s all about what critics believe to be the “must see” shows this season on Broadway. But it becomes official when...

Review: Cocoa Village Playhouse ‘West Side Story’

Dillon Giles and Isabel Prado in Cocoa Village Playhouse's 'West Side Story.' Detail of photo by Megan Abbott Photography.

Dillon Giles and Isabel Prado in Cocoa Village Playhouse’s ‘West Side Story.’ Photo (detail) by Megan Abbott Photography. By PAM HARBAUGH From the first downbeat in the splendid overture to “West Side Story,” you know you are in for a treat with Cocoa Village Playhouse’ marvelously sung, beautifully staged and exquisitely...

Review: ‘Miss Saigon’ at Cocoa Village Playhouse

By PAM HARBAUGH Big spectacle and big voices tell an epic story in Cocoa Village Playhouse’s potent and precise production of “Miss Saigon.” With music by Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. (Schonberg and Boublil created “Les Miserables”), this remake of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” tells the...