Thursday, October 13, 2022

Review Highlights: LIZZIE - Spotlight Youth Theatre

Katerina Anderson, Jazlynn Damasco, Bella Cucchetti, and Isabella Menzel
Photo by Robert Waller

highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)

Click here for more information on this production that runs through October 23

"The well-known nursery rhyme about Lizzie Borden and her axe and how she gave her mother forty whacks with it before using it on her father has cemented the story of Lizzie and her notorious murders in the minds of just about everyone. Steven Cheslik-deMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan Stevens Hewitt have taken that rhyme and other lesser-known facts about the 1892 murders and Lizzie's case and crafted it into a rock opera called Lizzie. Spotlight Youth Theatre's production of this small-cast show, the first in their new smaller studio space, has four fantastic actresses, a superb band, and spirited direction and choreography. It's a loud, in-your-face musical that gets inside the mind of Lizzie and the other people in her life as it lays out potential motives for the murders set against a driving, rock beat..." - Gil Benbrook, TalkinBroadway.com (click here to read the complete review)

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