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  • May 21, 2012

Ladue News: Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment

Thursday 05/17/2012
Dark Shadows: Movie Review
Posted: May 17, 2012

Tim Burton’s films have always been hit or miss with me. Edward Scissorhands—hit, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory—miss, Ed Wood—hit, Planet of the Apes—miss. I was hoping Dark Shadows would be a hit.

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Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Movie Review
Updated: May 17, 2012 - 11:32 am

To be frank, I’m not sure how much LN readers really need to see my opinion of this film considering almost every showing was sold out at Plaza Frontenac this weekend.

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Monday 05/14/2012
Rounding Third: Theater Review
Updated: May 15, 2012 - 9:47 am

Story: Don, meet Michael. Michael, meet Don. To an outsider, these two men seem like polar opposites. Don wants to win at all costs, while Michael -- and he prefers ‘Michael’ to ‘Mike’ or especially ‘Mikey’ – just desires the experience to be worthwhile. The experience in point here is a Little League baseball team managed by Don -- and don’t call him ‘Donald’ – for several years.

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The New Century: Theater Review
Updated: May 14, 2012 - 12:23 pm

Story: Playwright Paul Rudnick casts his wry eye on a number of situations dealing with alternative lifestyles in this four-scene, two-act pastiche. In Pride and Joy we meet Helene Nadler, mother of three grown children who have told her that they are lesbian, trans-sexual and a leather fetishist, respectively. So, as “the world’s greatest mother,” Helene reveals her thoughts and emotions to a Long Island chapter of the “Parents of Lesbians, Gays, the Transgendered, the Questioning, the Curious, the Creatively Concerned, and Others,” or P.L.G.T.Q.C.C.C. & O. for short.

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Burn This: Theater Review
Updated: May 14, 2012 - 10:53 am

Story: Anna recently has returned from the funeral of one of her roommates, Robbie. He was a gifted dancer, and choreographer Anna is still angry that no one from his New Jersey family had ever seen him perform in New York City. Robbie was homosexual but never came ‘out’ to his family, or so she tells her other gay roommate, an advertising executive named Larry, as well as Burton, a wealthy writer who is also her lover.

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Star Trek Live: Theater Review
Updated: May 14, 2012 - 11:49 am

Story: Trekkies of the universe, return with us now for ‘live’ re-enactments of two episodes of the classic science-fiction TV series. In The Gamesters of Triskelion, Captain Kirk, Ensign Chekov and Lieutenant Uhura are trapped on a planet where the mysterious ‘Providers’ have them engaged in gladiator battles with aliens for the Providers’ own malicious amusement. Kirk devises a desperate escape plan as Mr. Spock and others aboard the Enterprise search for their missing colleagues.

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Thursday 05/10/2012
La Fee (The Fairy): Movie Review
Posted: May 10, 2012

I really don’t know what to say. I feel like I’m waking up/coming down from an absinthe- induced daydream. Either that or somebody made a live action version of SpongeBob SquarePants. I’m not a big follower of the grand tradition of French absurdist comedy, but I can see its value. Here, we have an endearing romance wrapped in a cloak of offbeat amusement.

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The Avengers: Movie Review
Updated: May 10, 2012 - 12:06 pm

From special effects to fights to explosions, it hits every marker. But the movie is so much more. That was the first time in years I have been in a movie theater when the crowd, on multiple occasions, erupted in spontaneous applause.

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Mary Poppins: Theater Review
Posted: May 10, 2012

Story: George and Winifred Banks have just seen their latest nanny depart in a huff from their London household, thanks to the incorrigible behavior of their children Jane and Michael. When George writes a job description for still another domestic, mysteriously arrives one Mary Poppins, an extremely self-confident nanny who promptly takes over the child-rearing chores before George even mails his note.

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Tuesday 05/08/2012
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Theater Review
Posted: May 08, 2012

Story: Lawrence Jameson has made a very good living as a con artist on the French Riviera. He has a palatial estate not far from the casino where he plies his trade, with the assistance of local police inspector Andre. While relaxing at a café, he notices a loud American doing a cheap swindle on an unsuspecting tourist. He mildly chastises the Yankee, Freddy Benson, and compares his debonair style with Freddie’s blunter approach. Intrigued, Freddy asks Lawrence to mentor him.

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