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Martin City Jr., the children’s theater wing of the Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company, is performing “Bounce” through July 31. Martin City founder Jeanne Beechwood wrote and directed this piece, which includes original songs by Jon Copeland.
Previous ColumnsMartin City Jr., the children’s theater wing of the Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company, is performing “Bounce” through July 31. Martin City founder Jeanne Beechwood wrote and directed this piece, which includes original songs by Jon Copeland.
The Gorilla is back. Gorilla Theatre, one of the oldest alternative theater groups in Kansas City, interrupted the space-time continuum in a big way last year when it failed to offer an annual sunrise production of a Greek classic. Instead, Gorilla founder David Luby opted for a simple staged reading of “The Birds,” a comedy by Aristophanes, which was not well-attended.
With a sometimes bumpy test debut for his new family drama out of the way, playwright Tony Kushner is setting his sights on getting the play to Broadway by the end of the year.
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They didn’t carry Red Ryder BB guns or wear round glasses like Ralphie, but 17 boys with Broadway dreams belted out songs and monologues to land a part in the new holiday musical based on the movie “A Christmas Story” that will debut in Kansas City later this year.
Well, it was just another trippy Saturday night in the Crossroads. Actress/producer Corrie Van Ausdal inaugurated her new performance studio, the Fishtank, with her more-or-less solo enactment of a 30-minute radio play, “Sorry, Wrong Number.”
Briarcliff Village: Briarcliff Parkway and Mulberry. Community of Christ Temple: 201 S. River, Independence.
Well, the famous Starlight bats were present and accounted for at the opening-night performance of “Legally Blonde — the Musical.” You have to hand it to the actors, who maintained their composure despite the omnipresence of the winged mammals fluttering in and out of the proscenium in search of insects to gorge on.
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