November 11, 2011 “Guys And Dolls”– With Show-Stopping Numbers, Gorgeous Voices, This Is Community Theater At Its Best Rob Minshall and Katie Lynch Koglin as Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown. Pair some of the Cape’s best vocal talent with a much-loved Broadway show chock-full of outstanding tunes, and not much can go wrong. Well, a … Continue reading
October 26, 2011 A pair of fierce wolves, played by Tabitha Ruth Dorman from the Coro Ragazzi Children’s Chorus (left) and Miranda van Mooy from the Turning Pointe Dance Studio, dance their way into the ark. All photos by Rebecca Forster, The Enterprise. Falmouth Chorale Celebrates Community, Commitment, Voyage, and Redemption—and the Sea In a … Continue reading
October 12, 2011 “Quills” is thoughtful, wickedly funny, beautifully written, and professionally presented by the Cotuit Center for the Arts. Directed by Mary Arnault, the acting, the sets, the costumes, the lighting and the sensitivity of this production are exemplary. Doug Wright, the author of “Quills,” wrote that art is “innately subversive,” that art, including … Continue reading
September 23, 2011 Christine Mascott welcomes everyone to the Happening. The Woodstock era, the late 1960s and early ’70s returned to the Cotuit Center for the Arts on September 9. There were tie-dyed t-shirts, folksingers, folk rockers, poets on their soap boxes, and a roomful of hippie clothing and memorabilia. There was Phyllis Diller. The … Continue reading
August 6, 2011 Photo by Brend Sharp. Ruth dances the Conga with the Naval Cadets. Sisters Eileen and Ruth leave Columbus, Ohio to seek their fortunes in New York City in Betty Comden and Adolf Green’s “Wonderful Town,” presented by the College Light Opera Company at Highfield Theatre in Falmouth this week. Music is by … Continue reading
July 6, 2011 Anna Botsford, as Annabella, tells Tom Myers, as Hannay, about the plot to steal secret military documents. The ringleader is missing a digit from his little finger. Photo by Alan Trugman for Cotuit Center for the Arts. “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps,” at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, gets off to … Continue reading
August 26, 2010 Brad Baron as Miles Gloriosus The College Light Opera Company’s final production of the summer, Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum,” opens with a flourish, as Prologus (James Soller), in a bejeweled toga, leads the ensemble in a vibrant and entertaining rendition of the best-known song … Continue reading
August 18, 2010 Scott Wasserman, center, as the poet Archibald Grosvenor, surrounded by a chorus of rapturous maidens, in CLOC’s production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Patience.” Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Patience” is a light-hearted tale of love and poetry, told with wit and visual humor, one of the fluffiest and least complex of the G&S comic … Continue reading
August 12, 2010 Alexandra Linn Desaulniers, as Annie Oakley, and Scott Wasserman, as Frank Butler. “Annie Get Your Gun,” A Bulls-Eye for CLOC By WILLIAM GRACE There’s plenty for everyone to enjoy in the College Light Opera Company’s production of Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” which opened on Tuesday at the Highfield Theatre in … Continue reading
August 10, 2010 Peter Cook as King Arthur knights Lancelot, played by Rob Minshall, while Jennifer Perrault-Minshall, as Guenevere, looks on. Catch the “one brief, shining moment that was known as Camelot” at the Cotuit Center for the Arts and see why this rendition of the legend of King Arthur is such a memorable—and popular—show … Continue reading
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