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‘Rock of Ages’ Lets the Music Do the Talking

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Rock of Ages – Featuring a book by Chris D’Arienzo and arrangements and orchestrations by Ethan Popp, the tenth anniversary tour is being directed by Martha Banta and choreographed by Janet Rothermel. At the Boch Center Wang Theatre, Boston through 10/28

 

You don’t have to have been a child of MTV to enjoy Rock of Ages, the jukebox musical now rocking the Boch Center Wang Theatre – but it certainly helps. Featuring songs by bands that helped launch the channel back in its early days – Twisted Sister, Quarterflash, REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake, Foreigner, Journey and Pat Benatar – the show is a essentially comic sendup of every dumb rock and roll movie ever made from Beach Blanket Bingo to Rock n Roll High School, and it’s a blast.

 

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Boch Center’s Sound of Music Charms Audiences – While Providing a Cautionary Tale

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The Sound of Music – Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse; Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp. Staged by Networks Presentations at the Boch Center, Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St., Boston, MA, through May 13.

 

One of the most beloved movie musicals is making its return to the stage at the Boch Center, with a marvelous production that warms the heart while chilling the bone. The Sound of Music, best known for its litany of iconic songs – “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Edelweiss” and the title song – is a masterclass in songwriting for the theater by the team of Rodgers & Hammerstein. But it is the dark undercurrent of the rise of the Nazis that lifts this classic from inspiring love story into something much weightier, and it is particularly resonant given the current political climate.

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