   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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The estrogen level of Girls Night did everything it could to blow the roof off of the palatial Hanover Theatre Wednesday night. Louise Roche's funny, raunchy and touching celebration of indomitable female friendship is part anthem, part confessional and all party. It's a blissful blitzkreig of song, dance and memory for every woman in the audience - just about everybody - and a primer for the few brave attending men curious enough to know what women really talk about when we're not around. Or more to the point, how they talk about it. Sex, men, marriage, children and tampons are just a few of the topics discussed in graphic, often hilarious detail. Roche has an uncanny ability to weave these subjects together with a seemingly improvisational verve that, for the most part, nimbly sidesteps weary cliche, punctuating her female esprit de corps with shrewdly chosen songs that range from plaintive ("At Seventeen") to marital ("I Will Survive"). It's about four fortyish 40-ish friends who meet at a karaoke bar, reminisce about a fifth friend who died falling off the back of a moped 22 years ago, and wait for her daughter to show up. Liza (Sonya Carter) is rife with doubt about her marriage to wealthy Richard. Her father left her mother and, bottling up her feelings, she feels Richard will do the same. Carol (Renee Colvert) is the complicated one, twice married and divorced and looking for the ultimate Mr. Right. Anita (Justine Hall) is a dynamo on the verge of some sort of nervous breakdown, hooked on pills and hopelessly devoted to her husband, Jeff. Kate (Whitney Kathleen Vigil) is the geeky designated driver of the bunch just itching to cut loose, get drunk and see what - or who - the night brings without hubby Steve finding out. Hovering and gliding around them with an angel's wings and a white jumpsuit is sassy and vivacious Sharon (Crystal Kellogg). It's her job to give us the biographical lowdown on her still living gal pals and listen in on what they're saying about her. Yes, yes, this is musical theater's supreme equivalent of what the male species refers to disdainfully in the movie world as the dreaded chick flick. But wait, guys. What keeps Girls Night: The Musical from being a pallid pajama party yuckfest is the sheer exuberance of this remarkable cast under Jack Randle's bracing direction. Everyone performs with raucous physical suggestiveness, disarmingly opulent verbal candor and raw, earthy charm. It's highly unlikely you've seen "Lady Marmalade" sung with a male blow up doll for a prop - until now. Since this is a show about women singing at a karaoke bar, it isn't clear at times if the singing is deliberately off-key or not, but Vigil does it with great comedic instincts on "Holding Out For a Hero" and "Cry Me a River." For pure vocal dazzle, Hall takes honors for her growling, purring, sinewy mastery of "The Love of My Man." Carter reflects Liza's withholding nature beautifully on "Don't Cry Out Loud." "We Are Family" may be the ideal song to depict the solidarity of these tested friendships, but it's Carter's stirring lead on the clarion majesty of "I Will Survive" that brought the audience to its feet, clapping and whooping with delight and resolve. Men beware - even you may join the crowd. |
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