Back to the Future
From Our Theatre Correspondent February 28th, 2009:
Tonight was opening night for this year's Purim Spiel at Congregation Beth Shalom, Naperville. Holy Neuteronomy! is an original musical comedy featuring congregation members as the Third City Players. The show was much anticipated following on the success of last year's show, Passover: The Musical. This critic for one was not disappointed. The show was hilarious, a clever parody of last year's cast struggling to put on a new show. Their show was mixed up version of popular bible stories, mixed up because just before rehearsals began, the producer dropped the script and all the pages got muddled up.
Holy Neuteronomy!, which has 13 brand new songs, featured many familiar names. However, some new faces this year belong to the popular head of the synagogue's nursery school and the writer's dance teacher. Mademoiselle Pavlova was only meant to be the show's choreographer, but ended up with an important singing role when it became obvious at auditions there was no one else to do it. She stopped the show with her beautiful voice, a giant leap of faith for the writer/director who hadn't heard her sing a note before giving her the role.
Similarly Adam B. De Mille found that as well as being elevated from last year's assistant director to co-director, he also had to play the part of a comedian and King David.
For anyone who missed the show, they can catch repeat viewings on local television station NCTV.
So that's how the show will end up. All we have to do now is spend the next three month's getting it there.....
Tonight was opening night for this year's Purim Spiel at Congregation Beth Shalom, Naperville. Holy Neuteronomy! is an original musical comedy featuring congregation members as the Third City Players. The show was much anticipated following on the success of last year's show, Passover: The Musical. This critic for one was not disappointed. The show was hilarious, a clever parody of last year's cast struggling to put on a new show. Their show was mixed up version of popular bible stories, mixed up because just before rehearsals began, the producer dropped the script and all the pages got muddled up.
Holy Neuteronomy!, which has 13 brand new songs, featured many familiar names. However, some new faces this year belong to the popular head of the synagogue's nursery school and the writer's dance teacher. Mademoiselle Pavlova was only meant to be the show's choreographer, but ended up with an important singing role when it became obvious at auditions there was no one else to do it. She stopped the show with her beautiful voice, a giant leap of faith for the writer/director who hadn't heard her sing a note before giving her the role.
Similarly Adam B. De Mille found that as well as being elevated from last year's assistant director to co-director, he also had to play the part of a comedian and King David.
For anyone who missed the show, they can catch repeat viewings on local television station NCTV.
So that's how the show will end up. All we have to do now is spend the next three month's getting it there.....
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