Stage & Screen Reviews
by John Kenrick
(Copyright 1996-2016)
Fair warning -- I call 'em as I see 'em. Whether you agree with me or not, I hope you enjoy the view!
Recent Reviews
- The Producers at Paper Mill Playhouse
Television
- Annie (ABC 1999)
- Candide (PBS 2005)
- Gepetto (ABC 2000)
- Julie Andrews (Kennedy Center 2001)
- The Music Man - ABC (2003)P
- South Pacific - ABC (2001)
Shows: Broadway
- A Connecticut Yankee at Encores (2001)
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001)
- Amadeus (1999)
- American Idiot (2010)
- An Evening With Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin (2011)
- Annie Get Your Gun (2000)
- An Evening With Jerry Herman (1998)
- Anyone Can Whistle at Encores (2010)
- Applause (2008)
- Bea Arthur (2002)
- Beauty and the Beast (1999)
- Bells Are Ringing (2001)
- Bells Are Ringing at Encores (2010)
- Boys From Syracuse (2002)
- Carnival at Encores (2002)
- Catch Me If You Can (2010)
- Chicago (2000)
- The Civil War (1999)
- Cotton Club Parade (2011)
- Dance of the Vampires (2003)
- The Dead (2000)
- The Drowsy Chaperone (2006)
- Elaine Stritch: At Liberty (2002)
- Face the Music at Encores (2007)
- Fanny at Encores (2010)
- Finian's Rainbow at Encores (2009)
- Follies (2001)
- Follies at Encores (2007)
- Follies (2011)
- 42nd Street (2001)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at Encores (2012)
- Girl Crazy at Encores (2009)
- Gypsy - Peters (2003)
- Gypsy - Lupone (2007)
- Hair - Return of the Revival (2001)
- House of Flowers (2003)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2007)
- Kismet at Encores (2006)
- Kiss Me Kate (1999)
- Kiss Me Kate (1999) 2nd Cast
- Little Me (2014) at Encores
- Lost in the Stars at Encores
- Merrily We Roll Along at Encores (2011)
- The Most Happy Fella at Encores (2014)
- Music in the Air at Encores (2009)
- The Music Man (2000)
- The Music Man (2001) 2nd Cast
- The Music Man (2001) 3rd Cast
- Never Gonna Dance (2003)
- Next to Normal (2010)
- Nine (2003)
- Of Thee I Sing at Encores (2006)
- Oklahoma (2002)
- On The Town (1998)
- On the Town at Encores (2008)
- Paint Your Wagon at Encores (2015)
- The Pajama Game at Encores (2002)
- Pipe Dream at Encores (2012)
- Private Lives (2002)
- Ragtime (1999) 2nd Cast
- Say Goodnight, Gracie (2002)
- Scarlet Pimpernel (1997)
- Seussical (2001)
- 70, Girls, 70 (2006)
- Sound of Music (1999) 2nd Cast
- Souvenir (2005)
- Stairway to Paradise (2007)
- Sweet Smell of Success (2002)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002)
- Threepenny Opera (2006)
- Thou Shalt Not (2001)
- The Times They Are A-Changin' (2006)
- Titanic (1997)
- Urinetown (2001)
- Where's Charley at Encores (2011)
Regional
- Beauty and the Beast - Boston (1998)
- Forever Plaid - Boston (1998)
Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ
- A Bronx Tale (2016)
- A Chorus Line (2001)
- Ain't Misbehavin
- Annie (2002)
- Anything Goes (2000)
- Baby (2004)
- The Baker's Wife (2005)
- The Bandstand (2015)
- Blue (2003)
- Camelot (2003)
- Can-Can (2014)
- Carousel (2001)
- The Chosen (2004)
- Cinderella (2005)
- Crazy For You (1999)
- Dinner Party (2002)
- Elf (2014)
- Ever After (2015)
- Funny Girl (2001)
- Grease (2003)
- Guys and Dolls (2004)
- Hairspray (2010)
- Harold & Maude (2005)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2015)
- I'm Not Rappaport (2002)
- The King & I (2002)
- Les Miserables (2010)
- Miss Saigon (2002)
- My Fair Lady (2002)
- Of Thee I Sing (2004)
- Oliver! (2013)
- The Other Josh Cohen (2014)
- Pippin (2000)
- The Producers (2016)
- Ragtime (2005)
- Red, Hot and Blue (2001)
- Romeo & Bernadette (2003)
- She Loves Me (2004)
- Sound of Music (2003)
- South Pacific (2014)
- The Student Prince (2000)
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2011)
- The Tale of the Allergists Wife (2004)
- Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike (2015)
- Victor/Victoria (2000)
- Wonderful Life (2006)
Off-Broadway
- A Fine & Frivate Place (2006)
- A New Brain (2007)
- A Night at the Operetta at Town Hall (2007)
- A Night at the Operetta at Town Hall (2008)
- All Singin', All Dancin' (2007)
- As Thousands Cheer (1998)
- Auntie Mame - All-Star Benefit Cast (1998)
- Blind Lemon Blues (2007)
- Bloomer Girl (2000)
- Broadway by the Year 1954 (2008)
- Broadway Originals at Town Hall (2008)
- Carmelina (2006)
- Cocktails With Coward (2005)
- Darling of the Day (2005)
- Enter Laughing (2007)
- Fanny Hill (2006)
- Forever Plaid (2006)
- George M. Cohan Revue (2004)
- The Grass Harp (2003)
- Henry Sweet Henry (2004)
- Into the Woods (2005)
- Is There Life After HS? (2003)
- Lingoland (2005)
- Lucky Stiff (2005)
- Man Wanted! (2004)
- Manhattan Madcaps (2006)
- Mirette (2005)
- Musical of Musicals: The Musical (2004)
- Naked Boys Singing (2000)
- NEWSical the Musical (2011)
- The Normal Heart (2004)
- NY Festival of Song (2008)
- Plain and Fancy (2006)
- Rex (2000)
- South Pacific at Carnegie Hall (2005)
- Souvenir (2004)
- Splendora (2000)
- Summer of '42 (2002)
- Thrill Me (2005)
- Triumph of Love)
Film
- Camp (2003)
- Chicago (2002)
- Dreamgirls (2007)
- Funny Girl (2001) Restoration
- Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
- Sing-Along Sound of Music (2000)
- Topsy-Turvy (1999)