Musical version of 2006 movie at the Jacobs Theatre on 45th Street on Broadway
Theatre
Spring Awakening
A musical in Moore Theater based on a play written in 1891. The set was spare with musician sitting at the back half below the floor. The setting was as in the original, so male students were wearing knickers and girls wore frilly dresses.
However it was certainly a modern play in the areas it touched on: masturbation, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, sex education, homosexuality, … Hard to believe it was written in the Victorian era.
The high point was the singing – there were some great voices and songs.
Big Love
This play is a modern rendition of the Suppliant Maidens by Aeschylus. Supposedly, the author wanted to take a classical play and see if it could be relevant in a modern context. If that was the goal, then I don’t think the play succeeded.
Maybe it was the heat in the theater or the end of a long day, but I kept nodding off.
Helen & Edgar
Monlogue by Edgar Oliver
in the Bentley Theater