[NEohioPAL] Review Beck Center: The Robber Bridegroom

[Laura Kennelly]

*The Robber Bridegroom* at the Beck Center’s Studio Theater provides a
boisterous romp. As Director Scott Spence points out in the program, the
show, with music by Robert Waldman and book/lyrics by Alfred Uhry, debuted
on Broadway fifty years ago.

It’s a tall tale based on a novel by Eudora Welty inspired by the Grimm
Brothers’ fairy tales. It’s set in pre-Civil War days along the Natchez
Trace. Nothing is safe from its satirical glance at life from Nashville to
Natchez.
Plantations, hillbillies, scheming females, murderous men, bandits,accents,
romance, sex — well, almost everything, is fodder for the show’s
heavy-handed humor — except maybe bluegrass music.

Full review at
https://coolcleveland.com/2025/06/theater-review-the-robber-bridegroom-beck-center-by-laura-kennelly/
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