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Opened:
December 16, 2004
Ended:
Winter 2005
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Company/Producers:
Irish Repertory Theater
Theater Type:
off-Broadway
Theater:
Irish Repertory Theater
Theater Address:
132 West 22 Street
Phone:
212-727-2737
Genre:
Musical
Director:
Tony Walton
Choreographer:
Lisa Shriver
Review:
After the Ball, Noel Coward's musical based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, now at the Irish Repertory Theater, is a perfect holiday entertainment. It starts as a Frimlesque operetta, develops into a musical, and the drama and comedy flows into a lovely show with beautiful period costumes, fine stage design and elegant, lively direction by Tony Walton. While Coward's songs are witty and appropriate, the most fun are still Wilde's quips and his thrusts at the British.
The stage movement and choreography by Lisa Shriver is all in clean patterns, and the cast, including a delightful Kathleen Widdoes, is uniformly excellent.
Cast:
Kathleen Widdoes
Technical:
Set: Tony Walton
Critic:
Richmond Shepard
Date Reviewed:
December 2004
