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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Too Many Girls: Elaine Liner Review
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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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The companies we chose consistently produce solid work while nudging boundaries and exploring ways to make our theater scene even more incredible. Lyric Stage Its official motto is “dedicated to the development and preservation of the American musical,” and Lyric Stage has built a reputation on doing just that. For every beautifully rendered production of [...]
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Lyric Stage’s 1776 is a Star-Spangled Treat Great idea by Lyric Stage producer Steven Jones to open his revival of the grand old musical 1776 during campaign season. If only more of those pesky “undecided voters” could see it. What they would witness first and foremost is another of Lyric’s spectacular productions of a rarely done piece of [...]
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I Do Declare! 1776 at Lyric Stage “Our do-nothing Congress isn’t worth a darn. All they do is sit on their rich, elitist butts. They squabble over petty issues, insult each other rudely, complain about the weather and refuse to deal with real issues making life tough for the average citizen.” Sound like a polite Facebook [...]
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IRVING — If you need a little motivation to get out to the polls this year, make a visit to Lyric Stage’s 1776. The Tony Award-winning musical gets the patriotic juices flowing every time you see it. It’s a strange hybrid of a piece, but it certainly does work, especially when performed as well as at [...]
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‘The Most Happy Fella’ brings out all the emotions Posted Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012 Updated Friday, Sep. 14, 2012 8 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday Irving Arts Center’s Carpenter Performance Hall 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd., Irving $25-$53 972-252-2787; www.lyricstage.org Mark Lowry – Special to the Star-Telegram IRVING — Something magical happened last Saturday night at [...]
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Vintage Perfection: Lyric Stage & The Most Happy Fella A most happy audience files out of Carpenter Hall at Irving Arts Center, after experiencing the visually resplendent, musically rich performance of Frank Loesser’s genre-defying “The Most Happy Fella”, under the auspices of the Dallas-Fort Worth region’s champion of musical theatre classics, Lyric Stage. Once again, Jay Dias [...]
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