[NEohioPAL] LAND OF CLEVE REVIEW: 'A Little Night Music' is a Summer Serenade That Pleases All the Senses at Porthouse Theatre

Cleve Land via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Tue Jun 16 12:46:09 PDT 2015


      LAND OF CLEVE REVIEW:
'A Little Night Music'
         is a Summer Serenade
    That Pleases All the Senses
          at Porthouse Theatre

*A Little Night Music's *director and choreographer Sean Morrissey
has impressively staged the show as if all the action takes place in a
life-sized musical jewelry box, cleverly designed by Ben Needham. The
players, props and set pieces spin into place on a central revolve,
allowing viewers to become voyeurs into the characters' proper yet
passionate lives. Morrissey's controlled pacing also ensures that each line
of Sondheim's intensely intricate lyrics is heard, aided by Brian Chismar's
sparkling sound design.


The women in the piece are as mesmerizing as they are heartbreaking. Terri
J. Kent is effervescent as Desiree, possessing both the star quality
and emotional *joie de vivre* required for the role. Lenne Snively
powerfully portrays the regal Madame Armfeldt, Amy Fritsche is deliciously
divine as Charlotte, Shamara Costa makes a lovely and lusty Petra, and Lucy
Anders is a sheer delight as the impetuous young Anne.


The men also make their mark in the production, especially excelling in
comedic characterizations. Fabio Polanco is ideal as the agitated Fredrik,
a middle-aged man exhibiting all the symptoms of a turn-of-the-century
midlife crisis. He is matched by jaunty Jim Weaver as Count Carl-Magnus, a
puffed-up dragoon who demands the fidelity of both his wife and his
mistress. Julian Kazenas is hilarious as a repressed ball of teenage
hormones and Henrik, and Jared Dixon and Jimmy Ferko add some humorous
touches as house servants.


Narrating the action are an elegant and evocative quintet of singers,
including Ian Benjamin, Allisyn Just, Katey Sheehan, Dane Castle and
Lindsay Simon...


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*http://inthelandofcleve.blogspot.com/2015/06/cleve-review-little-night-music-is.html
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