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Entertainment > Music > Ghost--the Musical--touring Company Review
 

Ghost--the Musical--touring Company Review




In
“Ghost-The Musical”, which opened at the Broward Performing Arts Center
in Fort Lauderdale last night, the amazing technology and very much
alive projections, along with strobe lights, overwhelms the sweet
classic love story adapted by, and from, Bruce Joel Rubin’s Oscar
winning screenplay, Rubin also wrote the lyrics with music by Dave
Stewart aside from the theme song “Unchained Melody” written by Hy Zurel
and Alex North.


The
story
tells how Sam and Molly are separated by his being fatally shot and how
he comes back to save Molly, with the help of a crooked psychic, after
finding out he had been killed by his friend Carl.


Carla R. Stewart as the psychic Oda Mae Brown brings a lot of energy and fun to the stage. Steven Grant Douglas
as Sam has a strong voice and is very good in the physical action and
reactions he has to play though in many cases he plays second fiddle to
the technology.  Katie Postotnik as Molly has a sweet voice but is given
two bland solos especially, “With You”, in the first act, that stops
the show in its
tracks. Robby Haltiwanger, as Carl, just as Fernando Contreras as
Willie, the killer, and Brandon Curry as a subway ghost lose their time
on stage to the technical display and a sound system that worked against
the actors and the ensemble.


It is only Carla R. Stewart who stands out over the strobe lights, technology and projections that are too often and too many.


There
were a
couple of first night miscues regarding lights and ghosts but no matter
what it taking place on stage with special effects that love story
comes through.


“Ghost--the Musical” is 2 hours and 30 minutes including a 20 minute intermission.

posted on Apr 30, 2014 6:19 PM ()

Comments:

Were they trying to use the special effects to let the audience know when the ghost business was going on?
comment by troutbend on May 1, 2014 4:55 AM ()
They were using 'special effects' for EVERYTHING!!!! When the esemble were dancing there were projections on the back screen of them dancing only twice the size and twice the amount of people--strobe lights into the audience were constant--my review was nice compared to the paper's reviewer today!
reply by greatmartin on May 1, 2014 6:19 PM ()

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