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Marya Zimmet - And the Livin’s Too Easy

2 months ago | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

Having retired from a full time job, Mayra Zimmet found that her couch was much less appealing than presumed. She resolved to embrace new experience, take risks, set goals. “If I Only Had a Brain” (Yip Harburg/Harold Arlen) the vocalist sings wistfully. It’s understated, balladic. Even “I’d unravel every riddle/For any individual…” sounds like everyday speech. Zimmet journaled, “delved”, went on a vision quest and asked ChatGPT whose sage advice was to find something she loved to do.
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life - From Philosophy to Analysis

Jan 18, 2025 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

There will probably never be a last word on masterful composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021). As I write, I’m sure students are researching theses. Revival of the iconoclast’s works is more frequent than ever. Richard Schoch, a Professor of Drama at Queens University Belfast, proposes (soundly) that response to a piece of art is determined by how it speaks to us personally.
Dead As a Dodo - Wondrous

Jan 14, 2025 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

Visually “…based on Tales from the Crypt, Dante’s Inferno, and old Silly Symphonies cartoons,” Dead As a Dodo is a marvelously executed theatrical fantasy. Those not ordinarily fans of the genre shouldn’t hesitate because its apparent actors are puppets. The sweeping story of friendship, survival against forces of evil and wish for immortality is touching, harrowing, and humorous. Dodo and Boy (Photo by Richard Termine)There’s nothing alive on earth’s surface.
Gypsy - Mama Rose as Medea

Jan 13, 2025 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

There are a multitude of differences between the latest iteration of this iconic 1959 musical and its predecessors. Some work, others don’t. The show’s reason and axis, Audra McDonald, is undeniably a multi-talented actress. Despite recent illness, she imbues the role of war horse stage mother Rose with incendiary energy, grit, passion and despair.
Cult of Love - A Masterful Dramady

Jan 11, 2025 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

A Connecticut, Norman Rockwellish farmhouse (enviable and move-in ready as designed by the excellent John Lee Beatty) is decorated for Christmas. Outside picture postcard snow drifts down, while inside lighted garlands, colorful stockings, and a beautiful, old fashioned tree create a peaceful, domestic setting against bay windows. Mare Winningham (Ginny); David Rasche (Bill)The Dahl family has gathered, some willingly, some due to pressure, others of necessity – having literally no place to go.
The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy - Rod Serling Would Approve

Jan 8, 2025 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

“Is anyone out there? This is Egon Tichy. Does anyone copy, over?” Egon Tichy is making a solitary voyage somewhere near the star, Betelgeuse. STARLOG: MONDAY. “I appear to be outside range. Finally some peace and quiet.” The astronaut (Joshua William Gelb) stands in a narrow, recessed doorway bookended by panels to storage and passages elsewhere. A vertical window looks out between two horizontal video screens.
Dorothy Parker In Hollywood

Jan 6, 2025 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

Most people aware of Dorothy Parker associate her with wisecracking light verse: Oh life is a glorious cycle of song/A medley of extemporanea/And love is a thing that can never go wrong/And I am Marie of Romania. In fact, she was a reviewer, an accomplished, O. Henry Prize winning author of short stories and, despite scorning 35 years in Hollywood, an Academy Award nominated screenwriter.
Bashevis’s Demons- 3 Tales by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Dec 30, 2024 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

Bashevis’s Demons is performed in Yiddish. Supertitles are clear and timely on projections above the stage. Like the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof, actors fully explore characterization as originally written. And WHAT actors! Shane Baker, who has translated Beckett into Yiddish and toured worldwide, is an alumnus of The Ridiculous Theatre Company, studied Yiddish in Jerusalem, and finds inspiration with traditional Japanese Noh. Baker wears a kimono and carries a fan throughout.
Melissa Errico - ‘Twas the Night After Christmas - A Winter Party with Billy Stritch

Dec 28, 2024 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

If you’ve ever had Melissa Errico put her hand on your shoulder and sing a couple of lines to you as she wends through the audience, you immediately understand what draws people. The artist exudes warmth and accessibility.Tonight, daughters in proud attendance, the Broadway/Cabaret veteran presents herself as a mom. Melissa ErricoErrico virtually bounces on to the stage wearing plaid, flannel pajamas.
The Anderson Brothers Play Hoagy Carmichael

Dec 25, 2024 | womanaroundtown.com | Alix Cohen

The Anderson Brothers’ tutorial entertainments offer almost as much information as they do music. Will writes an illuminating biographical script augmented by film clips. Peter creates arrangements true to songwriter intention. The twins play saxophone, clarinets and flutes, beaming at one another during solos. Shows are amiable. And skilled. Born poor, Hoagy/Hoagland was named after a circus troop that stayed with the family. Mom played piano for silent films. Reginald de Valle taught the boy ragtime.