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Ordinary people bloomed into murderous evil in the world of pre-war pulp fiction which produced a minor masterpiece in the 1937 James M. Cain novel Double Indemnity, which became a landmark of film noir featuring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in 1944. Now the Old Globe Theatre has a steamy stage adaptation, directed by newcomer John Gould Rubin, which does its ancestors proud.
In 2011, The Book of Mormon swept the Tony Awards and overshadowed all the other shows it was up against. While I love that religious satire, other productions nominated for Best Musical that year deserve a little bit more recognition.
… this isn’t your Great Grandma’s Wizard of Oz. This one has more dancing (giant dancing bugs, crows, and apple trees with thick red lips right out of an acid trip, an edgy Emerald City gang in aviator glasses, and pyrotechnics that make your hair stand up.
Was it about a bus ride in a Third World Country? Sex? Bodies? Eric Geiger’s “Kingdom for Sale (better history)” made space for viewers’ imaginations.
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