items tagged with Clinton Area Showboat Theatre
There’s No Business Like Reviewing-the-Shows Business
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Feature Stories
2005-12-14 00:00:00
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Feature Stories
2005-12-14 00:00:00
How wonderful and humbling the last eight months have been.
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CAST Delivers a "Beauty"-ful Season Closer: "Beauty & the Beast" at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2005-08-17 00:00:00
In the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre’s ingenious new production of Beauty & the Beast, the first things to catch your eye are a small bench located stage right and a large screen – it’s nearly half the length of the stage – hanging upstage. On that screen is a rear projection of a rose, and it has a haunting, rough-edged quality; it looks like something that French waif on the Les Miz poster should be holding.
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2005-08-17 00:00:00
In the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre’s ingenious new production of Beauty & the Beast, the first things to catch your eye are a small bench located stage right and a large screen – it’s nearly half the length of the stage – hanging upstage. On that screen is a rear projection of a rose, and it has a haunting, rough-edged quality; it looks like something that French waif on the Les Miz poster should be holding.
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In Praise of the CAST Cast: "Don't Drink the Water" at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2005-08-03 00:00:00
Perhaps the biggest pleasure in attending an entire season of summer-stock theatre lies in the chance to see familiar faces in show after show. If a company’s actors have impressed you in the past, just noticing their names in a new program is enough to make you smile, and I’ve now smiled throughout four consecutive shows at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre (CAST). By this point, I’m so happy just seeing Katherine Walker Hill and Nicole Horton and Chris Amos and Craig Merriman and Patrick Stinson and Sandee Cunningham and Michael Oberfield and the rest of CAST’s 2005 ensemble that it barely matters what show they’re in; with actors this enjoyable, audiences are all but guaranteed to have a great time. (It’s a wonderful argument for remaining faithful to a theatre … and for purchasing season subscriptions.)
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2005-08-03 00:00:00
Perhaps the biggest pleasure in attending an entire season of summer-stock theatre lies in the chance to see familiar faces in show after show. If a company’s actors have impressed you in the past, just noticing their names in a new program is enough to make you smile, and I’ve now smiled throughout four consecutive shows at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre (CAST). By this point, I’m so happy just seeing Katherine Walker Hill and Nicole Horton and Chris Amos and Craig Merriman and Patrick Stinson and Sandee Cunningham and Michael Oberfield and the rest of CAST’s 2005 ensemble that it barely matters what show they’re in; with actors this enjoyable, audiences are all but guaranteed to have a great time. (It’s a wonderful argument for remaining faithful to a theatre … and for purchasing season subscriptions.)
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Play Ball!: "Damn Yankees" at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2005-07-20 00:00:00
In the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre’s production of Damn Yankees, the characters you might find yourself adoring the most aren’t the devilish Applegate, or the seductress Lola, or newfound baseball star Joe Hardy, despite the considerable talents of those playing them. They’re Joe and Meg Boyd, whose story sets the plot in motion, and who – as portrayed by Rob Engelson and Nicole Horton – provide the show with more cumulative emotional impact than you might be expecting. Horton isn’t on stage as often as some of her co-stars, and Engelson appears even less frequently, but their spirits hover over the whole production, and it’s not until the last scene that you realize just how much of Damn Yankees’ success rests on how much you like Joe and Meg.
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2005-07-20 00:00:00
In the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre’s production of Damn Yankees, the characters you might find yourself adoring the most aren’t the devilish Applegate, or the seductress Lola, or newfound baseball star Joe Hardy, despite the considerable talents of those playing them. They’re Joe and Meg Boyd, whose story sets the plot in motion, and who – as portrayed by Rob Engelson and Nicole Horton – provide the show with more cumulative emotional impact than you might be expecting. Horton isn’t on stage as often as some of her co-stars, and Engelson appears even less frequently, but their spirits hover over the whole production, and it’s not until the last scene that you realize just how much of Damn Yankees’ success rests on how much you like Joe and Meg.
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A Fully Satisfying "Monty": "The Full Monty" at the Timber Lake Playhouse
Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2005-07-06 00:00:00
By the time the amateur male strippers perform their exuberant, baring-it-all finale in the Timber Lake Playhouse’s The Full Monty, it might take all your will to not leap from your seat and join them. The high spirits generated by this show are a little overwhelming; with the possible exception of the Clinton Area Showboat’s current production of Ruthless, The Full Monty is the best time I’ve had at the theatre in two months. It’s joyous, technically dexterous, thrillingly performed, and, best of all, absolutely fearless. (You’re aware of this by the end of the overture, when a bare-assed stripper, hounded by female groupies, races across the stage.)
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Theatre
Category: Reviews
2005-07-06 00:00:00
By the time the amateur male strippers perform their exuberant, baring-it-all finale in the Timber Lake Playhouse’s The Full Monty, it might take all your will to not leap from your seat and join them. The high spirits generated by this show are a little overwhelming; with the possible exception of the Clinton Area Showboat’s current production of Ruthless, The Full Monty is the best time I’ve had at the theatre in two months. It’s joyous, technically dexterous, thrillingly performed, and, best of all, absolutely fearless. (You’re aware of this by the end of the overture, when a bare-assed stripper, hounded by female groupies, races across the stage.)
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