Saturday, March 18, 2006

Crowns

Portland Center Stage
March 17, 2006; closes April 9, 2006

I tip my hat to Crowns. Who’da thought a millinery musical could so stylishly cover the thinning, greying locks of Portland theatre? The interesting-in-their-own-right women get a bit upstaged by the wide, flowery brim of their own gimmick, but the cast holds its head high with refreshing exuberance and joy.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agree that the show was very upbeat and professional. Not particularly deep; although they managed to touch on topics as broad as women's power and self-esteem to death, it was more in the way of a collection of anecdotes and quips strung together with a revue of gospel and spiritual tunes. But the cast was very hard-working and delightful.

The only disappointment was the audience: fairly sparse, even for a Tuesday night; still too few black faces, though I'm sure the ones who were there loved the show; and hardly anyone - male or female - came in a hat!

-- Quixel

Anonymous said...

On Friday night the line for rush tickets was all the way down the block! Word must be getting out about this one.