   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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In Betsy Kelso's zesty U.S. adaptation of British playwright Louise Roche's hilarious and, at times, poignant musical henfest, Girls Night: The Musical, five fortyish female friends let their hair down during a wild night at a karaoke bar. Last night, this uproarious musical comedy, produced by Entertainment Events Inc. and Robert Dragotta of New York City and presented April 1 - 6 by Broadway Series South, had the mostly female audience in A.J. Fletcher Opera Theatre rocking, from its opening number - Diana Ross' "Remember Me" (1971) to its exuberant encore of Gloria Gaynor's 1978 chart-topper "I Will Survive." Sisterhood is powerful - and some of the stock situations - relationship problems. unwanted pregnancies, etc. - confronting these four high-school friends are all-too-familiar. Sonya Carter as rich but lonely Liza, Justine Hall as pill-popping Anita, Renee Colvert as party-hearty-girl Carol, and Whitney Kathleen Vigil as Carol's nerdy little sister Kate rendezvous in the karaoke bar to hold an impromptu bridal shower for the never-seen daughter of their dead friend Sharon (Crystal Kellogg), who died ignominiously 22 years when she fell off a moped. Looking like a ghostly disco queen with a pair of glitter-edged angel's wings sprouting from the back of her white jumpsuit, Sharon serves as the show's narrator and proves time and time again that she's no "angel" in the Rev. Billy Graham sense of the word. Crystal Kellogg's irreverent impersonation of Sharon; Renee Colvert's wisecracking characterization of Carol; and Sonya's touching portrayal of poor Liza, the most desperate housewife of them all, royally entertained the Wednesday audience. They saluted the show with a standing ovation at the end of the final curtain. But it is Justine Hall as the overmedicated Anita and Whitney Vigil as the ugly duckling-turned-beautiful swan Kate who steal the show with their outrageous antics. Indeed, Vigil's goofy, gawky Kate is the most spastic dancer since Julia Louis-Dreyfus played Elaine Benes on "Seinfeld" (1989-98). Kate's transformation after a night of heavy drinking and bruising girl talk, from an uptight Miss Goody Two Shoes into a shameless barroom flirt is truly remarkable. The evening's musical highlights include robust renditions of Theola Kilgore's "The Love of My Man," Patti LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" (1974), and Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud" (1978). Director Jack Randle's clever musical staging helps the cast transform their predictable parts from caricatures into truly unforgettable characters. The imaginative set of Shaun L. Motley, which opens up to reveal more intimate conversations in the bar's ladies' room, combines with the striking costumes of Karl Ruckdeschel and lighting of Jennifer Kules to make Girls Night: The Musical truly sparkle. |
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