Category Archives: The Courier Columns

SEVEN is a Lucky Number for CYT’s, BRIDES & BROTHERS

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

 YourHoustonNews.com_5-29-12 I’m old enough to remember seeing the MGM Technicolor film masterpiece, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” in a real theater on the wide screen. That was the kind of joyful event the memory of which the intervening years cannot … Continue reading →

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Stage Right’s CAROL BURNETT SHOW Takes Us Home Again

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

 YourHoustonNews.com_5-3-2012 I wonder how many of my readers are as tired as I of not having the family fun of musical comedy variety shows that used to be such a television treat in years gone by. Now we are saddled … Continue reading →

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TOMMY TUNE AWARDS: Young Actors Shine As Two Head For Broadway

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

 www.HereHouston.com_May 2, 2012 Published in 1940, the title of a Thomas Wolfe novel suggests “You Can’t Go Home Again.” But perhaps you can. It was a homecoming of sorts at the recent 10th anniversary Tommy Tune Awards presented in the … Continue reading →

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Audience Takes Flight For Stunning “COME FLY AWAY”

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

YourHoustonNews.com_4-13-2012 There really were moments during the Houston Hobby Center’s opening night of COME FLY AWAY that we audience members felt we were being lifted heavenward. There was heavenly song with the carefully integrated vocals of the late Frank Sinatra … Continue reading →

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YTA Gala Undiminished By Weekend Rain

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

 Conroe_COURIER_3-18-2012 It was a very special night for the Young Texas Artists Music Competition, and long in the planning by the Montgomery County Performing Arts Society. Perhaps in a perfect world the weather last Saturday night might have been perfect … Continue reading →

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Crighton Players Offer Laughter That “You Can Take With You”

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

 Conroe_Courier_3-16-2012 I’m not much a one for making categorical statements, but let me make an exception. I’m prepared to state categorically that in fifteen years of reviewing local productions I have never laughed as hard in Conroe as I did … Continue reading →

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MILLION DOLLAR Time Machine at Houston’s Hobby Center

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

It would not be until the 17th song of the evening that the audience would hear the Carl Perkins tune, “Party,” but in every other way the party for Million Dollar Quartet began the moment the curtain went up last … Continue reading →

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Two Crightons For the Price of Fun

Posted on February 26, 2012 by

 Conroe_Courier_2-26-12 Residents of the Conroe, Texas area may have been wondering about those peals of laughter rolling across North Main Street of late. Let me try to explain. On one side of the street at the Owen Theatre, the Crighton … Continue reading →

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An Elegant Eliza Anchors Masquerade’s MY FAIR LADY

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

HERE_Houston_12-14-2011 Many decades have passed since I had the pleasure of playing Henry Higgins in our high school production of George Bernard Shaw’s classic comedy, Pygmalion. I could not have guessed then that I would one day be honored with … Continue reading →

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A CHRISTMAS STORY Worth Re-Telling

Posted on December 10, 2011 by

There is Christmas joy aplenty in the current run of the Stage Right Players’ production of the Philip Grecian adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s charming, “A Christmas Story.” Many will recall that sweet film which is now an annual holiday television … Continue reading →

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