REVIEW: CCM’s ‘Once on This Island’ is Joyful
With its talented cast, amazing voices, dynamic choreography, and stunning visuals, ‘Once on This Island’ captures the magic and spirit of the Caribbean island setting,
March 29, 2024
With its talented cast, amazing voices, dynamic choreography, and stunning visuals, ‘Once on This Island’ captures the magic and spirit of the Caribbean island setting,
Isabella Wagner is outstanding as the lean and hungry Ciaus Cassius. Wagner strength is finding the emotional core in Cassius’ speeches and using that emotion
See Shucked. Broadway in Cincinnati’s current musical comedy is a corn-fed, joke-stuffed, gosh darn delight from first note to final bow.
This show is bright, silly, and refreshingly unpretentious. The colors pop, the songs are easy to follow, and the story doesn’t ask you to work too hard.
The production keeps the audience leaning in and at the edge of their seats, with Wiggins embodying a cast of multitudes and inviting us into a story that unfolds deliberately, poetically, and, by the end, collectively.