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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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Theater Review: ‘Girls Night’ at the Temple Theater in Des Moines

Friday, April 09, 2010


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)

If you’ve ever seen the movie "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" you know that the common bond between the four best girlfriends is a magically fitting pair of denim.

In "Girls Night: The Musical" the connection between the five-women cast is not stretch jeans, but shared experiences and 14 girl-power songs.

There’s Anita, the awkward, medicated bipolar who says inappropriate things at very inappropriate times. Glamorous Liza married rich and is afraid to love. Kate is a nerdy goody-two-shoes, and her older sister, Carol, is the wild child with a dirty mind. And then there’s Sharon, clearly stuck in the ’80s with her bedazzled white denim outfit, crimped hair and Reebok high tops. But give her a break, she’s dead (and has the feathery angel wings to prove it). She fell off a moped 22 years ago and has returned to offer big-picture commentary.

As you can guess, “Girls Night” is geared toward women. (Don’t confuse this with “Girls Only,” the two-woman show that stopped in Des Moines last spring and relied more on sketches and dialogue than music.) At the beginning of this show, Sharon pointed out the one man she could see from the stage. He seemed shocked, but played along, admitting his wife does not trust him home alone.

The girly girl subject matter was mostly fun, but at points seemed stereotypical. Liza was always adjusting her cleavage. The women paraded a blow-up man doll around the stage. One flashback scene took place on the night Kate made her grand entrance into puberty. There were a few cat fight moments.

But, when the stage lights changed colors and swirled around, the 30- and 40-something women transformed into their own version of The Spice Girls. They hit their stride belting out everything from “Lady Marmalade” to “We Are Family” — adding quirky dance moves, too.

Laura Saenz, as the glamorous Liza, led the ensemble in an energized and attitude-infused “I Will Survive.” Most of the audience was on its feet cheering and clapping. (This reviewer was tushy-rubbed by Sharon as she swept through the audience, playfully chastising those still seated.)

Anita, played by actress Christina Cataldo, was the most interesting to watch. She stayed true to her strange-bird character even when performing a showstopping rendition of “The Love Of My Man.” The audience erupted in loud applause at several points throughout the soul ballad.

Josie Ochanpaugh and her mother Nancy Zubrod attended opening night.

Zubrod, who acted in the Ingersoll Dinner Theater for 15 years, was trying to decide which characters she and her daughter most personified.

“I think we’re both Carols,” she said.

“Girls’ Night: The Musical”

  • WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays through April 18
  • WHERE: Temple Theater, 10th and Locust Streets
  • TICKETS: $34.50, $38.50 through the Civic Center ticket office and Ticketmaster

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