In The Heights (at the Ordway through September 24) – despite its glitziness, its over-the-top-ness, its (extreme) loudness – beautifully invokes the heat, the funk, the grit of a New York City summer. Better than anything I can think of…
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Circus 1903: Step right up!
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls Circus 1903 is in town. And what a fine circus it is. Couched in the conceit of an old fashioned big top entertainment from the turn of the last century Circus 1903: The Golden…
An American in Paris: a romantic spectacle lacking heart
The large Ordway stage feels almost built for big, spectacular looking shows like An American in Paris, the new Broadway tour running there through June 18. It’s a massive space that many have had trouble filling, but this new musical…
Paint Your Wagon at the Ordway
Hardy HWTSers Janet Preus and John Olive attended the performance last night of the hoary musical (original production was in 1953) Paint Your Wagon, at the Ordway. Paint Your Wagon is a “collaboration” between the Ordway and Seattle’s 5th Avenue…
The Magic Flute by Minnesota Opera, performing at the Ordway
Minnesota Opera‘s production (at the Ordway through Nov 22 – a short run; don’t mess about; getcher tickets) of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s glittering The Magic Flute boasts the most extensive and detailed use of projections I have ever seen. Did…
Ariadne Auf Naxos by the Minnesota Opera performing at the Ordway
We (my lovely wife Mary; my lovely HowWasTheShow.com colleague Janet Preus; Janet’s handsome SO Tim; and yours truly) attended the “Social Media Preview Night” last night of Minnesota Opera‘s upcoming production of Richard Strauss‘s intense and turgid and tuneful Ariadne…
The Pirates Of Penzance at the Ordway
The first thing to say about the Ordway’s rollicking production of the William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan classic The Pirates Of Penzance (in the cavernous Ordway, through August 16): it’s good. Excellent, in fact. Especially the music. Everyone sings the…
Damn Yankees at the Ordway
Truth be told, Damn Yankees (the Ordway, through June 28) is not a great show. It has its charms and a handful of memorable tunes, but its plot is, well, dumb. A reframing of Faust set in the world of 1950s…
Camelot at the Ordway
Camelot (at the Ordway, through May 17) harkens back to a simpler age, when a sturdy chap like Lancelot could be an arrogant, egotistical, sword-twirling, overweening and preening [your carefully chosen word here], and still get the girl. Nowadays a…
Porgy and Bess at the Ordway
Soaring melodies! Big orchestrations and choruses of voices big enough to take it on! Diva voices larger than life! Oh, this is gorgeous! Thank you, Ordway, for bringing us our beloved “Porgy and Bess†in a form that befits this…