![]() I saw ‘Head Over Heels’ earlier this year at the Playhouse. Since then we have seen Chap at CenterStage and Lakewood Playhouse (Broadway Bound). We saw The Producers three times I think. It wasn’t until almost at the end of the first act that I realized he was carrying around a script in his hand. The first time we saw Chap in action was as the character Max Bialystok in The Producers at Lakewood Playhouse. hiss” for the Richy Rich character and a cheer for the constant adjusting and figuring out what will sell by the Jewish immigrant father played by Chap Wolff. I should have figured out that she was an actress as well. Usually, she waves us in past the COVID check-in line at Tacoma Little Theatre. Newly arrived immigrants with Karen Christensen playing one on the left.Ī surprise for us was Karen Christensen (Emma Goldman/Fireman/Ensemble) who played an immigrant landing in America. The voices were good and reached out to each of us nicely. ![]() There was not a lot of high-kicking done by the women in proper behavior and their long skirts. I liked the roll-up screen, which worked well for a shadow affect as well as unveiling. ![]() Lakewood Playhouse has done a great job with a minimalistic set and a near constant fog. ![]() (New Rochelle Ensemble left to right: Natalie Hodges, John Plinka, Selayna Rudolph (Little Boy), Rebecca Maiten (Mother), Eric Strachan (Father), Corbin McKay (Younger Brother), Juliet Hollifield, Jed Slaughter) – There was not a lot of high-kicking done by the women in proper behavior and their long skirts. I like this description of the musical Ragtime “racism, poverty and trashed dreams are all elements in the overlapping stories of an affluent Wasp family, a black piano player who is denied justice, and a Latvian Jewish immigrant artist turned movie pioneer.” I would like to point out we have made great strides in social justice over the last one hundred and twenty years, but unfortunately, “stride” remains a piano musical term connected to the piano and ragtime/jazz and not to real life living. (Harlem ensemble around the piano left to right: Aliyah Shines (Sarah’s Friend), Clarence Williams, Darryin Cunningham (Coalhouse), Michael Green, Kareyana Rose Aquon.) “Stride” remains a piano musical term connected to the piano and ragtime/jazz and not to real life living. ![]()
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