DREW ANTHONY BECOMES ‘DEAN MARTIN’ IN TRIBUTE SHOW AT AVENTURA CENTER AND BOCA BLACK BOX

  Since singing the songs of The Great American Songbook of the 1940s-70s with his grandmother in Connecticut as a young man, Drew Anthony was told for many decades how much he resembled and sounded like singer Dean Martin. Martin first starred as the musical half of a comedy/music duo with Jerry Lewis from 1946-56, before starring on his own until he passed away in 1995.

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‘Anastasia the Musical’ Remembers December

For a special Christmas and New Year’s run, Slow Burn Theatre Company is in the midst of its 15th Anniversary Season, and their current production of “Anastasia the Musical” is perfect for December. A take on the beloved animated Disney movie from 1997 with the same name, the production features a wintery Russia and an aristocratic Paris; snowy and cozy both are general feelings with which you leave. Taking fairly major diversions from the movie musical with which we all fell in love with Anya and Dimitry, the musical encapsulates the feeling of family and December, but ultimately misses on the magic from the film.

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Star Power Steals the Show in Dramaworks’ Dark ‘The Dresser’

A maddened leader surrounded by flattering sycophants and slipping into senility. Betrayal, backstabbing, a nation under siege. No, I’m not describing King Lear, though the similarities are by no means coincidental. I’m describing The Dresser, a 1980 play by Ronald Harwood that revolves around a dysfunctional British theatre troupe’s performance of the aforementioned tragedyin January of 1942. 

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‘Both Sides Now’ at GableStage An Intimate Musical Tribute

Written By Michelle F. Solomon

Originally published on artburstmiami.com.

Two stuffed chairs with a guitar leaning against one of them; a small table between with a large retro ceramic lamp with a white shade; two microphone stands; at stage right is a baby grand piano; Oriental rugs of different sizes are underneath. This is the atmosphere that sets the scene for GableStage’s “Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.”

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