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Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

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Reynolds and Price are passionate creators and intellectuals of their art. Their work is an alchemy of surpassingly inventive and sympathetic creative minds. They prove that great prose creates great music just as each informs and enhances the other. They are direct descendants of the great songwriting teams who came before them like Kern and Hammerstein, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and Lerner and Loewe. Their music is fresh, emotional, rich in character, sophisticated, and affects listeners in a memorable and important way.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Multi-Media
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Ensemble for the Romantic Century

In a selection from the audio drama Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart, Steven Fry, Vanessa Redgrave, and the music are sublime.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
Oscar Hammerstein Young Solo Contest
Music
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Oscar Hammerstein Young Solo Contest

Hammerstein’s legacy lives on, not only because the musicals and films he touched continue to draw audiences but because of the work of the Oscar Hammerstein Museum & Theatre Education Center (aka OHMTEC). This not-for-profit 501c3 organization is currently soliciting donations to purchase Hammerstein’s former home Highland Farm in Doylestown PA to serve, as noted on their site, as a “creative epicenter to make it accessible to people the world over.”

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
Plaza Suite at the Hudson Theatre
Broadway
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Plaza Suite at the Hudson Theatre

Neil Simon’s clever use of humor to tell soulful stories about the suburbs of New York City and the friction of ordinary lives is spellbinding. He wrote what he knew, which were primarily autobiographical pieces he termed “urban neuroses.” Barefoot in the Park depicted his marriage to his first love and wife. They lived every detail.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
POTUS at the Shubert
Broadway
Elizabeth Ann Foster

POTUS at the Shubert

The President has blurted out another gaffe, and everyone is scurrying to fix his latest blunder. Sound all too familiar? Well, in this case, it takes more than his wife and favorable news reporters to cover up this mess. It’s so bad that the care of seven women is needed for damage control.

Elizabeth Ann Foster
Girl from the North Country
Broadway
Elizabeth Ann Foster

Girl from the North Country

The women carry the show. Memorable, and the highlight is Mrs. Laine (Mare Winningham). She has dementia and lost her filter years ago. She is rip-roaring hilarious and made the otherwise severe, sad, and depressing depiction of life wake up the audience. Another resident Mrs. Burke (Luba Mason), takes off and starts playing the drums – in heels!

Elizabeth Ann Foster
Mrs. Doubtfire
Broadway
Elizabeth Ann Foster

Mrs. Doubtfire

The brother Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell created the book and are back at it again to make music and lyrics of pure unadulterated fun. Mrs. Doubtfire at the Stephen Sondheim theater is an update of the 1993 film starring Robin Williams, but funnier and more entertaining.

Elizabeth Ann Foster
The Orchard
Multi-Media
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

The Orchard

While Chekov’s play holds a firm place in the literature, through the magic of technology the story can now be presented in a cutting-edge complex dreamscape of seemingly incongruent elements achievable only with the contemporary arts of live-streamed multi-media drama.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
Uptown Showdown: Text vs. Talk
Off Broadway
Elizabeth Ann Foster

Uptown Showdown: Text vs. Talk

Comedians tackle the great debate of talk vs. text. Two teams 5 minutes a piece argue their case, and then the anchor on each team gets 7 minutes to wrap. The audience applause denotes the winner. You probably think the talk team won since the winner was recognized verbally – WRONG. Texting won by a razor-slim margin hardly audible.

Elizabeth Ann Foster
Jane Anger
Off Broadway
Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic

Jane Anger

Jane Anger is hilariously funny. Witticisms, cleverness, plays on words, malapropisms, and sparkling non sequitur rants abound along with a dash of the spirit of Monte Python and Mel Brooks, a touch of Abbott and Costello, and the cast’s superb timing that make it work.

Edward A Kliszus, Editor-in-Chief / Music and Arts Critic
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