Connor Gallagher’s choreography is zany and zips with a Latin flair. William Ivey Long’s dazzling costumes include a suit oozing with slime that it could walk around the stage on its own, and a striking, red quinceañera dress. David Korins’s set is a collision of garish greens and black color schemes, creating a grotesque atmosphere, a perfect home for animated dead bodies. Scott Brown and Anthony King’s book is satirical and randy, using the original movie script as a jumping off point for a work that stands on its own.ĭirector Alex Timbers fills the theater with magic, with actors rising in the air, fire shooting from hands, smoke pouring out of slashed necks, and gargantuan multicolored snakes crashing the party. Not many of the songs will wind up at the top of people’s song list, but they service the story and provide the wit and tone this musical requires. In a small role, Danielle Marie Gonzalez leads a rousing showstopper, “What I Know Now,” as the Netherworld’s former beauty-pageant winner turned dead receptionist.Įddie Perfect’s tunes are satirical and boisterous. Kate Marilley has fun as the bird-brained therapist, but she mimics the voice of her film counterpart, Catherine O’Hara, to distraction. As the goth-child, Esler has innate charm and an outstanding voice, capturing Lydia’s vulnerability and obsession with death.Ĭoleman and Burton are funny as the nerdy ghosts who aren’t frightening enough to scare a mouse, but they can only rise so far above the thankless roles. With a gravelly voice that could rip apart steel, Collette pokes at the audience until they’re raw with laughter. Yet Lydia, still despondent over her mother’s passing, has her own schemes in mind.Ī human version of the Tasmanian Devil, Collette is naughty in all the right ways in the role Michael Keaton made famous. He cons even the precocious, sad-sack Lydia (Isabella Esler) into doing his bidding. Forced into a war between the living and the dead, the recently deceased call upon an evil spirit, Beetlejuice (Justin Collette), to rid their house of these pesky humans, causing destruction with riotous results. Director Alex Timbers and his crew have morphed the beloved film into a fun house of a musical, with surprises hiding under every footlight.Īs in the Tim Burton film, two squares from a small-town (Britney Coleman and Will Burton) die and are trapped in their house while an overbearing family moves in and destroys their home with tacky architecture and art. on April 30, May 1 and 2, at the Footlight Club, 7A Eliot St., Jamaica Plain.A scene from the national tour of Beetlejuiceīroadway hit Beetlejuice, now running at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre before making more stops on its North American tour, features a delightful score and book along with hysterical performances. Tickets for the cabaret-style production of “The 7 Deadly Sins”are $5, including complimentary wine and cheese. This allows the young actors a chance to express their thoughts and views through a theatrical medium. She received a master of arts degree from New York University in drama education, and specializes in creating original theater with young people in order to dialogue social issues. She also serves as dean of the seventh grade.Īs an actress, Kort has performed in musicals throughout the Boston area. She currently teaches and directs musicals in the Performing Arts Department at Milton Academy, and runs a one-week Creative Stages summer program there. Kort has taught and directed theater with students ranging in age from kindergarten to 20 in Boston and New York City. Eleza Kort , a graduate of Brookline High School, is directing and performing in “ The 7 Deadly Sins,” an upcoming production of the Jamaica Plain Footlight Club’s 7A Series.
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