Tag: Hennepin Theater Trust

Review | The Book Of Mormon: singin’ and dancin’ racism

The Book Of Mormon is an energy packed and very funny show now playing at the downtown Orpheum Theatre until November 18th. Its pacing is tireless, starting at the opening song “Hello” when we meet Elder Price, (Kevin Clay) a…

Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, Hennepin Theatre Trust performing at the Orpheum

Sh. The dyspeptic Critic is here, but I think he’s asleep. Let’s not wake him. He has a distressing tendency to belch out his poisonous opinions with room-clearing fervor. Let’s talk softly. Carole King‘s 70s album Tapestries was the soundtrack…

Kinky Boots at the Orpheum

Va-Va-Voom! Kinky Boots (at the Orpheum only through Aug 2; see it while it’s still here) comes alive when sexy Lola – she of the svelte bod, the muscular thighs, the sly come-hither smile, the wigs – sashays and struts…

The Phantom Of The Opera at the Orpheum Theatre

The Phantom Of The Opera (playing at the Orpheum through Jan 5) has become an international phenomenon.  It opened in London and on Broadway in the late 1980s and is still running, having racked up more than 10,000 perfs.  Dozens…

Les Misérables at the Orpheum Theatre

We’re going to make the crabby and dyspeptic Critic stand in the corner for this one.  Stay.  Quiet. Ahem. The venerable and vaunted Les Mis has roared into town for a disappointingly short run at the Orpheum (the show closes…