Performance

Christmas Revels

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Revels posterThis was a good show at Spaulding Auditorium, with uptempo accessible music and lively dances.  There were some good banjo and blues musicians to back up the singers.  The show had the regular Mummers play and Morris sword dance, neither of which quite fit in.

This was a good length for the show, and a nice mix of songs to sing along to.

 

Rent

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Rent program coverA great performance by North Country Community Theater at the Town Hall Theatre in Woodstock.  In particular Hannah Sobel as Mimi, starting off with her sinuous gymnastics on the bars of the set.

Also Kaitlyn Ramirez as Joanne, and Megan Spinella as Maureen Johnson, Derrick Smith as Tom Collins.

The story is loosely based on La Bohème, but set in New York City at the height of the AIDS scare.  There were a number of classic songs, such as “Seasons of Love”.  The story is a bit of mish-mash, with a narration by filmographer character Mark Cohen.  This is no doubt due to the genesis, where there were many more small songs stories pared down to the musical as it stands now.