For Broadway fans in the Baltimore area, this is a fun night of theatre. If you have saved up to see one show all year, this might not be the one. While the show itself is super funny, the tongue-in-cheek humor is great, and this cast delivers on every punchline, the overall night at the theatre is a little lackluster.

The show is very small for a Broadway-caliber show. This show only ran for 9 months on Broadway and returned to off-Broadway for another few months before closing for good. People either loved it or hated it and I can understand why. Let me be clear that this is a night of tremendous laughter and this cast is wonderful, all around. I liked the show very much, but I couldn’t help looking around and seeing a mixture of smiles and frowns…I would have to guess that the smiles were from people who see a lot of shows and could enjoy just another night of fun theatre. The frowns had to be from people who rarely see shows and wondered why they paid so much to watch a show that looked like it was put together by a community theatre, but with very talented actors. The nuance of the show maybe lost on a lot of people.

The extremely talented “band” is quite impressive as it consists of one man playing piano and one man, playing every percussion known to man, but also creating every sound effect live as he watches the performers hit their mark. If you ask me, he is the real starcatcher! If I had seen this with bad actors at a small theatre for $25, I would have said the show is awful. I felt that way about, “Urinetown”…bad cast= horrible show. This cast is the whole reason to see this show.

John Sanders as our villain, Black Stache (love this name) is fantastic. He kills every line that could very well be lost to less of a performer. Megan Stern is super believable as Molly, a thirteen year old girl, though she is an adult and delivers her lines expertly. Benjamin Schrader is hilarious and stayed right on point throughout the night. I loved Edward Tournier’s performance as Ted. He has a line that is repeated throughout the show, “Sticky pudding, oh, it’s so good!” that he just delivers perfectly every time. The whole cast is the shining star here! Everyone really keeps up with the pace and with this show, if one person is off, you’d notice and not in a good way. They have great unity and as an ensemble they create a fun night of entertainment.
The show runs through May 18th, with a lot of performances to fit in everyone’s schedule.

For more information on ticket prices and showtimes, go to baltimore.broadway.com

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I knew early on that I wanted to take my place among the stars. One day, my mother saw me reading The Washington Post at a very young age. Who would have known that it would be the building blocks of my journey? Since that day, I dedicated my life to learn all that is learnable. I read everything from encyclopedias, to books, to dictionaries, to magazines. I’m also an avid consumer of television, with my favorite genre being game shows. If you’ve seen me on Who Wants to be a Millionaire or Wheel of Fortune, then you know that this interest has served me well!

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Since then, I have trained in Broadcast Journalism at Bowie State University (2008) in Bowie, MD earning a B.S. in Communications. I gained experience in news production and editing through field experiences with Bowie Community Media Corporation, Prince George’s Community Television, and Bowie State University Television. I also wrote scripts for a variety of quiz shows for over five years.

As a lifelong movie buff, I now see close to 100 films every year. I took this love of movies to the next step when I became a co-host for Eclipse Magazine TV in the fall of 2005. While at EMTV, I interviewed celebrities, worked red carpets, and attended a wide variety of movie screenings. In January 2009, I took a leap of faith and started my own entertainment news magazine, The Rogers Revue. Shortly afterward, my life-long journey of studying the silver screen and writing about what I learned finally earned me a place in the Washington Area Film Critics Association.

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