REVIEW: ‘Once on This Island’ Brings Dazzling Storm to CCM
With stellar casting, star-making performances, and a keen technical design, CCM’s colorful
production of ‘Once on This Island’ is among the best musicals staged
March 30, 2024
With stellar casting, star-making performances, and a keen technical design, CCM’s colorful
production of ‘Once on This Island’ is among the best musicals staged
By Kathleen Lamorelle, LCT Lysistrata and The Trojan Women, adapted by Ellen Mclaughlin and directed by Brant Russell is now playing at University of Cincinnati’s
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.