Bob Avian

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2022 Main Stage Review: One Singular Sensation “A Chorus Line” at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the Campus of DeSales University (Closed Sunday, July 10, 2022)

The original production of “A Chorus Line” opened in 1975 Off-Broadway at The Public Theater and transferred to The Shubert Theater on Broadway three months later to be nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning nine and being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was a groundbreaking musical that was the first Broadway show to be performed without an intermission…

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Broadway Review: “Miss Saigon” at the Broadway Theatre

The 2017 Broadway revival of “Miss Saigon” raises rich and deep enduring questions. Based on Giacomo Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly,” the mammoth musical has enjoyed decades of success – as has Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s “Les Miserables.” Success aside, the questions remain: What is the “ultimate sacrifice” one human being can make for another? What are the moral parameters involved…

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