Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging (at the Davenport Theatre 354 W. 45th Street www.forbiddenbroadway.com (212) 239-6200)


Forbidden Broadway

Mia Gentile (left) Carter Calvert (Center) and Scott Richard Foster (right)

After taking a ten month hiatus, the satiric musical revue that tops and betters all of them is back. As created, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, the revue built on a sequence of skits and original songs that lampoon the most vulnerable current musical shows is more blissfully funny and blisteringly on-target than it has ever been. To read the complete review please go to http://curtainup.com/forbiddenbroadway14.html

"17 Orchard Point" at the Beckett Theater (Opened May 4, 2014; Ends May 25th)



After an eight-year sojourn in Las Vegas, fifty-two year old, good-times-seeker Lydia (Michele Pawk) pays an unnerving, life-changing visit to Vera (Stephanie DiMaggio) her unloved, distraught thirty-year old single daughter in Cleveland. That about sums up the basic set-up for this implausibly pathetic reunion between a mother from Hell and her religion-intoxicated daughter as co-written by Anton Dudley and DiMaggio, who is also the play's co-star. To read the complete review please go to http://curtainup.com/17orchardpoint14.html