   7/22/2010 - Geva extends the run of Girls Night! News and Press Releases
Rochester’s biggest party of the summer will continue through the 13th of August. Due to popular demand, Geva Theatre Center announces ten additional performances of Girls Night The Musical.
7/21/2010 - Girls Night is definitely one for the ladies! Review
But the less-than-traditional audience that filled the theater was merely a reflection of the show on stage. As the name suggests, "Girls Night" is definitely one for the ladies, although there were a handful of brave men in the crowd on opening night. ("Suckers!" the welcoming voice-over playfully taunted.) On the surface "Girls Night" appears to be a glorified bachelorette party onstage, but at its core, the show is a relatively rousing two-hour celebration of girl power.
7/15/2010 - Girls Night: The Musical on stage at Geva Review
Call your girlfriends and head to Geva Theatre – It's "Girl's Night Out".
That's right. Girls Night: The Musical is now on stage and the party
starts the minute the lights come up on stage. The show will have you dancing in your seat.
7/12/2010 - Summer Gets Hotter at Geva! News and Press Releases
As we are currently experiencing a heatwave in Rochester, I thought it only apropos to talk about the heatwave happening in our Mainstage, namely Girls Night the Musical. Think of it as “Sex in the City” meets “Desperate Housewives” with a little Mamma Mia thrown in for good measure.
6/29/2010 - Girls Night: The Musical, Reviewed by Ron Gross Review
BOTTOM LINE: Our highest recommendation! I’ve never seen an audience enjoy a musical more than at this touching and hilarious romp.
6/25/2010 - 'Girl Talk' follows in the fun footsteps of 'Girls Night' News and Press Releases
"Sonya Carter abandoned a 12-year corporate career with American Express to hit the boards with "Girls Night: The Musical," a tale of friends out for a bit of fun one evening. It played in Wilmington twice, and now Carter will be back Tuesday and Wednesday in another production by the same company, the world premiere of "Girl Talk: The Musical." It's more than girls just wanting to have fun, says Carter. "Every night is a new experience. This show is so different in that it really engages the audience. "
6/25/2010 - A night of 'Girl Talk' News and Press Releases
"Tim Flaherty, the president of Entertainment Events Inc., and Louise Roche, a British playwright, have discovered a theatrical goldmine."
6/25/2010 - 'Girl Talk' makes premiere at Dupont Theater News and Press Releases
"Sonya Carter knows there’s no business like show business. “Growing up, I was that kid who always made everybody sit down and watch me dance and sing,” she said over the phone. But, Carter’s road to a career on the stage came a little later in life."
4/28/2010 - "Girls" is a Bunch of Fun Review
From The Philadelphia Inquirer, By Toby Zinman: The "girls" who came to see Girls Night were every age, shape, size, race, and color. There were even a few guys. A group of 11 high school teachers was sitting next to me. Everybody seemed to have the same good time. The show's unpretentious fun and the talented, unembarrassable women on stage had all of the audience on their feet, clapping, singing, and dancing in the aisles.
4/9/2010 - Theater Review: ‘Girls Night’ at the Temple Theater in Des Moines Review
SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER The cast of “Girls Night: The Musical” tell the story of five longtime friends, one of whom is a ghost, and belt out 14 classic songs. (Special to the Register)
2/17/2010 - 'Til Death: Late Night Catechism' gives the audience top billing Review
The line on the accompanying pop-out box says “Play review,” but “’Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3” is more an event. The audience is the show.
7/27/2009 - GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL at the Downstairs Cabaret at Sofia's Review
When the whole audience joins in to chant "I Will Survive," you realize that "Girls Night: The Musical" is not just a silly bachelorette-flavored night on the town. It's a rally. It involves the audience deeply and sincerely in a way that the current Broadway production of "Hair," in its earnestness, can only envy.
9/22/2008 - Get Ready for a Fun "Girls Night" Out Review
The opening night of "Girls Night: The Musical" at Shea's Smith Theatre was an estrogen extravaganza. Under a spinning disco ball, there was raucous laughter, singing and dancing - and that was just the audience.
12/4/2007 - Wimple while you work: Sister leads "Christmas Catechism" Review
So, a nun walks into a theater. No, really. It's not a joke. Not yet.
10/31/2007 - Paramount musical celebrates female friendships News and Press Releases
There's nothing quite so entertaining as watching girls who just want to have fun. They can be catty and cynical, silly or serious, weepy or wistful. And they've evene been known to get a bit raunchy every now and then - usually after midnight and only with the most innocent of intentions.
10/25/2007 - Sister rules, with sharp humor and nostalgia Review
"Late Nite Catechism" at the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts through Nov. 11, takes a hilarious and nostalgic look at parochial school education 40-some years ago, and incorporates many of the changes in the church since then, but it is never unkind or cynical about either the old or the new ways.
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So, a nun walks into a theater. No, really. It's not a joke. Not yet. It's Patti Hannon, star of the long-running "Late Nite Catechism" shows at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts. For the holiday season, though, she's moved her wacky class in Catholicism to the nearby Theater 4301 for "Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold," a staged classroom Christmas party with songs, a living Nativity and loads of laughs. Save for witnessing a whole kickline of Rockettes take an accidental tumble, this "Catechism" - returning after a successful stint last winter - is the funniest holiday show in the Valley. Adorned in pre-Vatican II wimple and habit, Hannon's Sister - just Sister, thank you - enters the theater just in time to catch her students, we the audience, joining in a sing-along "Jingle Bells." Sister will have none of it. "Simmer down, class," she says. "Clapping, singing - it's like 'Lord of the Flies' in here." Class first, she instructs, then we can party. Regulars to Sister's other "Late Nite Catechism" shows will find the first act familiar: There's a lesson of sorts, an extended riff on Christmas' origins and what, exactly, one gives to a nun (perfume: no; Whitman's Sampler: you betcha), punctuated by Sister's affinity for accosting audience members like a papal Don Rickles: Woe to the gum chewers among us, while those who actually attended Catholic school - or whose name is some variant of Mary - will find themselves in Sister's good graces. Things get sillier in the second act, when Sister and an assistant outfit members of the audience with clothes and junk seemingly snagged from the lost-and-found box, assembling a riotous living Nativity (surrounding a plug-in, light-up baby Jesus, no less). Slipping a fitted white bedsheet on her makeshift Mary of Nazareth, Sister is quick to quip, "It's been a long time since you've been a virgin, hasn't it?" But this Nativity has a greater purpose than audience participation high jinks. Ssiter - who's been watching too many forensic procedural dramas on television - says she's on a mission to solve a Christmas mystery: Someeone must've stolen the gold given to the infant Jesus by the Three Wise Men. If not, Sister posits, the party could easily have upgraded from the manger. The detective work that follows resembles a blooper reel from "Father Dowling Mysteries." Fresh from a summer of knee-replacement surgeries, Hannon is in fine form - is that a bit of pep in her step? - and her comic timing is as sharp as ever. Witness the ribbing she gave to a winter resident she singled out in the audience: "You're a little snowbird," she said to him. "You don't know how to park, huh?" |
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