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| Camryn Hamm, Roz White, Darryl Reuben Hall, and April Nixon Photo by Tim Fuller |
highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
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"With soulful melodies and heartfelt lyrics that capture deep feelings of sorrow, resilience and longing, the genre of blues music is one with raw emotion and storytelling strength. The powerfully expressive musical genre is on full display in the musical revue Blues in the Night at Arizona Theatre Company where it is brought to life by a talented cast. However, there isn't much of a plot, and many of the songs aren't that well known, so the show feels, at times, more like a loosely assembled concert than a fully realized piece of musical theatre. Fortunately, the performances elevate the material, making each song feel deeply personal and compelling yet also entirely universal." - Gil Benbrook, TalkinBroadway.com (click here to read the complete review)
"In Arizona Theatre Company’s (ATC) outstanding “Blues in the Night,” the audience is transported back to an upscale 1930s Chicago hotel where contemporary songs by such composers as Bessie Smith, Benny Goodman, Vernon Duke, and Duke Ellington among the 13 composers used allow three very different Black women singers to probe their struggles and joys." -Chris Curcio, Curtain Up Phoenix (click here to read the complete review)
"unfolds in a nameless, run-down 1930s hotel, where the weary and world-weary residents exist in a haze of longing and lost dreams. Stripped of names and bound by the same familiar struggles, characters drift through a never-ending night, living out the blues they know too well. ATC’s production, now playing at Tempe Center for the Arts in Tempe until March 9 and deftly directed by Ricardo Khan, captures this melancholy world, transforming the stage into a living, breathing jukebox of heartache and resilience." - David Appleford, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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