by Jeff Maisey | Mar 14, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III That is very much the message that comes through when talking to Virginia Opera’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Adam Turner, about the upcoming production of The Flying Dutchman, which got grand reviews at the Glimmerglass...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 27, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” is hardly the sort of comment that the French born and accented, multi-lingual, multi-talented stage director-actor-designer-librettist-novelist-online journalist-educator-manager and all around theatre...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston Speaking to actor J. Harrison Ghee, a North Carolina native who was in Tampa for a Kinky Boots performance at the Straz Center when I recently interviewed him by phone, reminds me of the famous Oscar Wilde quote about life imitating art. Within just...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 26, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey Three of the four cast members of Menopause the Musical are breast cancer survivors. The disease is duly noted when the popular musical comes to the Sandler Center on November 3 and 5. Terri Adams – a survivor – has played the part of a Baby...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 20, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The opera La Bohème is a story of young love and heartbreak, and heartbreakingly young death. It’s back at the Virginia Opera’s Harrison Opera House, in a new production full of youthful energy and total respect for all that has made Puccini’s...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 28, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Hell is open for (monkey) business, and even the gods are partying there. (Olympus is just sooo boring!). The Greek gods’ “Grand Galop” at that soirée, from Orpheus in the Underworld, gives Virginia Opera’s big free outdoor Opera in the...
