Evita
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Directed by Adam Fratto
At the Loeb Mainstage
This weekend and next
COMPOSER Andrew Lloyd Webber has a knack for turning the most unlikely subjects into inexplicably successful rock/pop operas. Jesus Christ, T.S. Eliot's cats, roller-skating trains, the Phantom of the Opera. And Argentine actress/first lady Eva Peron. Adam Fratto, who directed last year's Lowell House opera, bucks convention by having a rock ensemble, instead of the traditional string orchestra, play the rock-inspired score. Why has no one thought of this before?
The Bald Magic Hamlet
Adapted and directed by Mark Prascak
At the Currier House Dining Hall
This weekend and next
LAST year, director Mark Prascak wanted to put on David Mamet's Glengarry Glenn Ross amid the trees in Currier's dining hall, but he ended up putting it on in Currier's nearby Fishbowl. This year, the trees are gone, but Prascak gets his wish, as the dining hall will be the site of his musical adaptation of three works: Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Shakespeare's Hamle
Knock Knock
Written by Jules Feiffer
Directed by Zoe Mulford
At the Quincy House Cage
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