![]() ![]() Unlike with Show Boat, I had at least seen the movie Sweeney Todd and so I knew it wasn't precisely a formula musical. ![]() These productions have the potential to bring in folks who don't normally attend the opera, and I'm sure it's also fun for long-time opera buffs who are also nostalgic for classic musical theater. But regardless of my personal taste, I understand why HGO chooses some of these shows, and I think it's smart on their part. I didn't care for HGO's Show Boat last season, in part because it took what I think of as a formula musical and added the operatic style, which seemed unnatural in that context. traveling Broadway shows) and that's by choice. I haven't been overly enthusiastic about HGO's recent trend of adding one or two shows each season that seem to be musical theater rather than opera I rarely go to TUTS (Houston's Theatre Under the Stars, i.e. I'm happy to say that this was another case when I was unsure whether I would like a production but then was blown away it happened earlier this season with Otello and it happened again on Friday with Sweeney Todd. It was especially fun for us to see Nathan Gunn in such a small venue, because we were about to see him in the title role of HGO's Sweeney Todd later in the same week. ![]() Last Monday, we attended the Houston Grand Opera Patrons Recital and saw Nathan Gunn, accompanied by Julie Jordan-Gunn, singing a wide variety of pieces, from operatic staples such as the Toreador song from Carmen and Papageno's suicide aria from The Magic Flute (spoiler alert: it has a happy ending) to western ballads and folk music, including "Home on the Range" and "Shenandoah". ![]() To Take a Dare - Crescent Dragonwagon & Paul Zindel.The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger.Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang.Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes - Chris Crutcher.The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins.Dear Bill, Remember Me? And Other Stories - Norma Fox Mazer.The Chronoliths - Robert Charles Wilson. ![]()
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