Back for its second year, Oklahoma Senior Follies takes its inspiration from the Ziegfeld Follies for a show packed with music, dance and comedy. Former Miss America Jane Jayroe and Oklahoma City University President Robert Henry are emcees for the show, which features performers 55 years and older. “During the week we have special coaching […]
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Getting attention
Carpenter Square Theatre presents a challenging play in Lisa Loomer’s Distracted, about a family with a child who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Carpenter Square bills the play as a comedy, and although Loomer tells the story with a certain amount of humor, it’s a stretch to call it a comedy. Directed by Rhonda […]
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Collision course
Sometimes all people can do is salvage whatever is left of their lives after a tragedy. That’s the subject of Diane Glancy’s new play, Salvage, now being presented under the direction of Sarah d’Angelo. As it opens, Wolf (Jeremy Tanequodle) comes home to report he’s been in a head-on collision in which a passenger in […]
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Of paranoia and pregnancy
Finally, here’s a chance to see Mike Waugh answer nature’s call right onstage. He does this bit of business in Matt Pelfrey’s thriller, An Impending Rupture of the Belly. Being the seasoned pro that he is, Waugh surely shakes the dew off the lily and talks to a man about a horse without fail, and […]
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No objection
You know you’re in for an evening of light entertainment when a musical opens with a number titled “Ohmigod You Guys,” sung by a bevy of University of California-Los Angeles Delta Nu sorority sisters. Legally Blonde: The Musical, based on an Amanda Brown novel and the 2001 motion picture, is now being given a modest […]
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Spring into action
With a youthful cast under Michael Baron’s direction comes a highly satisfying Oklahoma premiere. In the much-lauded Spring Awakening, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik have adapted Frank Wedekind’s 1891 German tragedy about teenage angst and sexual awakening into a musical. Employing contemporary slang and combining the 19th-century setting with a rock score, the show attempts […]
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Shine on
Melanie Marnich’s docudrama These Shining Lives is meant to be taken both literally and figuratively: Women whose jobs literally cause their bodies to glow from radium poisoning provide shining examples of lives nonetheless well lived. Based on actual events and people, the play takes place between 1922 and 1938 in Chicago and Ottawa, Ill. Catherine […]