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Title:All the world's a stage
Notice:You 'audition' for a play - you 'try out' for a football team...
Moderator:SNAX::NOONANN
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1116
Total number of notes:4087

1112.0. "Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Musical" by SNAX::NOONAN (sing the soul's blues) Tue Apr 15 1997 06:10

    I went to see "Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Musical" at the Boston
    Center for the Arts this weekend.  It is being put on by Centastage.
    
    I have to admit, I went mainly because Centastage has a nice habit of
    giving reduced price tickets to the acters on their mailing list, and I
    rarely get to see any theatre!  I really wasn't expecting much.
    
    Girl, was *I* wrong!  This is an INCREDIBLE piece of theatre.  And I'm
    not a big fan of musicals.  I was amazed.  And judging by the response,
    so were most members of the audience.  Considering that it was press
    night, and more than half of the audience members were critics
    (including a New York critic from the acting trade, Back Stage), that
    is saying a lot! 
    
    I highly recommend this show.  You can find more information at
    Centastage's web page:  http://world.std.com/~centasta
    
    
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1112.1MOVIES::POTTERhttp://www.vmse.edo.dec.com/~potter/Wed Apr 16 1997 12:198
I was in a very amateur (and probably illegal) production of this a few years
back, and had great fun with it!  Possibly part of that was because of the
tiny theatre - it only had 90 seats!

However, the show itself was great fun!

regards,
//alan
1112.2SNAX::NOONANsing the soul's bluesThu Apr 17 1997 01:085
    errrr...I don't think so.  This is a world premiere of a musical by a
    local composer/lyricist team, and it wasn't finished a few years ago.
    
    
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1112.3MOVIES::POTTERhttp://www.vmse.edo.dec.com/~potter/Thu Apr 17 1997 06:2617
    errrr...I don't think so.  This is a world premiere of a musical by a
    local composer/lyricist team, and it wasn't finished a few years ago.

Ah.  Oh dear, I think that they might have some problems with copyright or
some similar legal thingies then - because there is already in existence a
musical called Jack The Ripper.

It has songs such as "Gawd Bless Us" and "The Ripper's Gonna Get You If You
Don't Watch Out", as well as that classic of the stage (!) "They've Gone And
Dressed Us Up In Women's Clothes"

I can't remember the author/composer at the moment, I'll check that out when I
get home.  As far as I recall it's handled by one of the major distributors -
French or someone similar.

regards,
//alan
1112.4SNAX::NOONANsing the soul's bluesThu Apr 17 1997 08:067
    "The Ripper's Gonna Get You...." is in this show.  You might want to
    check the review at 
    
    http://northshore.shore.net/~greenrm/jack.htm
    
    
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