BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Broadway is Back… and it’s one helluva opening. If the new shirts Peace Center ushers are sporting with that slogan are not enough proof, consider the unassailable, ecstatic cheers and roars as the cast of Hadestown...
A Round-Up of Scheduled Summer Shows and Fall Openings! Email updates to sandy@carolinacurtaincall.com While many major arts organizations have shuttered their entire programming slates until Fall due to the Covid19 pandemic, a handful of theatres in the Upstate are crossing...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Aladdin, now playing at the Peace Center through Feb. 23, soars beyond the stars and past any preconceived expectation one would hope for a live Disney musical – the high-flying magic carpet where the illusion is...
SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Zach Bencal calls the spectacle of Aladdin pure “Disney magic”: the hand-made costumes, the special effects…and the flying carpet. But just as a magician never reveals his parlor tricks, neither does a Disney employee who values his...
BY DR. KATE ROARKDRAMA CRITIC There’s a line near the beginning of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, about the best Broadway songs being like short plays. Of course, Carole King didn’t write her songs for Broadway, but this line...
Required Viewing for all Miranda Die-Hards! BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC SPAMILTON: An American Parody is an audacious send-up of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative process and Hamilton fever…and the Broadway musicals affected by the success of the box office phenomenon. Hamilton...
