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Philippe Besson - Arrête avec tes mensonges (Trad. Molly Ringwald).

My review of The Ringwald Theatre’s production of Disney’s High School Musical - excerpt: The Ringwald’s production, populated as it is by a cast who, for the most part, would have been in elementary school when High School Musical debuted in 2006, is pleasantly reverential to the material, while not taking any of it too damn seriously. It’s a high wire act that I found, quite frankly, refreshing. Playing double duty as director and actor (“Coach Jack Bolton”), Brandy Joe Plambeck takes a breezy, frothy approach to the material, aided and abetted by his real-life husband Joe Bailey in the role of Sharpay. In Bailey’s hands, Sharpay is both comic and poignant, never shrill, and just the right side of arch. Bailey knows that a middle-aged man playing a heartbreakingly spoiled high school theatre diva is pretty damn funny in and of itself and that layering on any meta commentary or turning up his nose at the material would sink the show and his performance. It’s smart and it’s fun, and Bailey alongside his “brother” Ryan (Christopher Ross-Dybash exuding sunshine) are a hoot. Read the rest: https://reelroyreviews.com/2019/08/25/true-terror-is-to-wake-up-one-morning-and-discover-that-your-high-school-class-is-running-the-country-the-ringwald-theatres-production-of-disneys-high-school-musical/ #disney #musical #theatre #highschoolmusical #ringwald #michigan #ferndale @theringwald (at The Ringwald Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nAXgnlvkn/?igshid=sahc5x4asyuf

Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald says she has re-evaluated the film in the light of #MeToo. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IotaUh0Oa8I

My review for EncoreMichigan.com of The Ringwald Theatre’s latest production - Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along.” Excerpt: “Over dinner before the show, my friend Lauren and I were discussing the high wire act of balancing one’s creative spark within the daunting machinery of commerce. Merrily is very much Sondheim’s meditation on that concept, written at a point when he had achieved great success and was likely gobsmacked by the pressures such ‘golden handcuffs’ inflict. He would later write more accessibly about the issue in Sunday in the Park with George, ‘After all without some recognition, no one’s going to give you a commission.’ Kyle Johnson as Franklin does a remarkable job channeling this tension, offering us a central tragic figure who is as relatable as he is maddening. Johnson smartly resists the people-pleasing trap of making Franklin ‘likable,’ with a feral and sweaty inner life that leaps from the stage. Comparably, Armstrong gives us a Mary who is loyal and true, witty and warm and utterly alone. The juxtaposition of the two figures with Kevin Kaminski’s twitchy, lovable, exasperating Charley makes for great theatre.” More: http://www.encoremichigan.com/2018/02/friends-fade-ringwalds-merrily-roll-along/ #sondheim, #ringwald, #ferndale, #detroit, #merrilywerollalong (at The Ringwald Theatre)

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