Gavi Nelson, full time 10th grader at DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys. Loves theater, art, and music from all dimensions. Peace, Love, and Equality Now!
Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Tony Award® nominee Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) as Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan.
Excitement was building up as I made my way to the Circle in the Square Theater. I was attending a preview performance of The Miracle Worker. A main attraction for me was going to see a bona fide Hollywood actress, Abigail Breslin, portray an iconic role of high emotional and physical caliber: Helen Keller. AND to see Alison Pill, whom is a veteran of both stage and screen play the role of the miracle worker, Anne Sullivan. It is not very often that one gets to see a play led by two such talented actresses, portraying such beloved and familiar roles.
I take my seat and the lights dim; the show is about to start. [click to continue…]
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Abigail Breslin,
Alison Pill,
Circle in the Square,
The Miracle Worker
I ventured into Manhattan on February 7th, through the cold and windy city streets, in an effort to make it to the Imperial Theatre to see Billy Elliot the Musical. I had great expectations for this, just like any other show I go to see.
I bought these tickets a few months ago and since it was Kids Night on Broadway it was buy one adult ticket and a young person (ages 6 – 18) goes free. I just started working and was proud to say I purchased my first full price ticket. (I usually do not need to with the much appreciated and thanked efforts of High 5 Tickets to the Arts and TDF). I was constantly saying that it better be good, but this was in a joking manner as I knew it had been loved by critics and audiences alike.
The show was not what I expected. [click to continue…]
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Imperial Theatre
Modernity…whether you like it or not, it’s in. In today’s day and age people want to see innovative and experimental artwork. Some like brand new and modern, some like traditional with a twist.
Recently, I went to the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art otherwise known as MOMA. Both buildings are modern and clean cut, but they are extremely different. You know what they say, “First impressions are everything,” so before I even entered the buildings my impressions of both went different directions. [click to continue…]
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MoMA,
The Guggenheim Museum
I walked into the Booth Theatre on June 29th with high expectations for Next to Normal. I found out about it when I was in Manhattan seeing The Little Mermaid and I passed the theatre. Its huge pictures of the cast had pulled me in. Then I started listening to some of the songs and I couldn’t stop. Then the Tony Awards had a performance of the song “I Am The One” and my mouth dropped at the amazing acting, singing, and demeanor of the performers and I knew that I just had to see it. When I finally saw it all my expectations were exceeded.
Next to Normal is what I would call a “rollercoaster of emotions”, but at the same time it is not so much that it leaves you walking out upset. [click to continue…]
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Booth Theatre,
Next to Normal
I recently saw the Broadway production of HAIR. It would be impossible for me to describe this show in one word. There are so many aspects one can take into account, like so many other shows.
There is, above all, the amazing idea and theme of the show that shine above all. This show’s theme is about the yearning for freedom, individuality, pacifism, love, and of course peace. The show’s “tribe” is made up of 32 people and yet each one is an individual, standing out in his or her own way.
The score and lyrics are out of this world. Written by Galt McDermot in the late 1960‘s the music was loved the moment it came out. There are over 35 songs, forcing the songs to tell the story, just like the book of a regular show would. It emanates all that the show is about, without being so obvious as to use the songs as some type of “singing plot”, if I may call it that. [click to continue…]
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Al Hirschfeld Theatre,
Hair
$5 Tickets
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