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4 💉💉💉💉 Rating, Off-Broadway

Skintight

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Skintight
Written by Joshua Harmon
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Roundabout: Laura Pels Theatre
June 12, 2018
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

What could ever draw Idina Menzel to the stages of NYC without giving her single song to sing?  Skintight was the show that did it!  I worried that the show was going to somehow ride off of her notoriety with Rent, Wicket or even Frozen, but blessedly I was wrong.  This show was rough, crude and certainly a puzzle.  Idina’s character has a father who is massively successful in the fashion industry and has recently taken in a 20 year old man as his partner – as she calls him his “boy toy”.  This is even more disturbing in that she has a son the same age.  And to make it even more, more disturbing she is recently divorced from a husband who decided himself to marry a woman in her twenties.  Everyone in the show wants someone in their twenties!  Everyone wants someone hot! Continue reading Skintight →

4 💉💉💉💉 Rating, Broadway

Travesties

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Travesties
Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Patrick Marber
Roundabout: American Airlines Theatre
June 13, 2018
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

You are going to get an awful lot when you attend an Wednesday evening seeing Travesties (especially when you see it as your second show of the day).  You are going to see a history lesson, farce, educational seminar, musical mixed with some highbrow intellectualism and some lowbrow silly fun and games.  It really does become a bit overwhelming.  l wished there was a remote on this show, and that I could pause and rewind many moments to figure out exactly what is happening and how exactly I am to feel about it – but forget that!  It is more like a roller coaster that, once out of the gate, stops for no one. Continue reading Travesties →