Lyric Stage is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2013 Schmidt and Jones Awards honoring excellence in high school musical theatre in North Texas. The awards gala is set for Thursday, May 23 at the Irving Arts Center. BEST MUSICAL Hairspray – Boswell High School Legally Blonde – Carroll Senior High School The Drowsy [...]
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It has football. It has girls. Do you really need to know anything more? Lyric Stage’s production of the 1939 Rodgers and Hart musical Too Many Girls, which opened Friday, is a magnificently produced valentine to old-time musicals that overflows with first-rate singing, dancing and acting. As it has done with several works from American [...]
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At Lyric Stage, a Revival of Too Many Girls Worthy of the Show’s Loveable Lineage If only college life were ever as naive and boisterous as it was in the 1939 musical Too Many Girls, now getting a sis-boom-beautiful revival at Irving‘s Lyric Stage. Out at New Mexico’s fictional Pottawotamie U, the football team has started winning, thanks to four [...]
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Irving’s Lyric Stage offers silly, tuneful fun in Rodgers and Hart’s ‘Too Many Girls’ by Lawson Taitte – Dallas Morning News Too Many Girls is just the sort of musical most people say they like. It’s breezy, fun and romantic. It also boasts 15 tunes written by arguably the best Broadway song-writing team ever, Richard [...]
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Girls, They Wanna Have Fun Lyric Stage revives the 1939 Rodgers and Hart comedy Too Many Girls. Was it worth the work? The laughter says it was. TheaterJones.com review by Jan Farrington There is a lot to like about this production: lively cast, great throwback choreography by director Ann Nieman, a full (and marvelously “live”) [...]
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