SHAKESLESQUE (To Thine Own Cherry Be True)

cabaret & variety · cherry poppins productions | cpc theater · Ages 21+ · United States of America

world premiere
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Review by MATT RITCHEY

June 03, 2017 certified reviewer

What I liked

Jim Niedzialkowski bought me a bourbon and ginger.

What I didn't like

Jim Niedzialkowski failed to buy me a second bourbon and ginger.

My overall impression

This show is fucking amazing. The best thing CPC has done, bar none. Packing eleven million people onto the postage stamp stage of Three Clubs doing an Elizabethan wedding dance to “Smells Like Teen Spirit”?? Seriously? How did they do this???? Bar. Raised.

Every character had an arc, the new players were spot on, the choreography was amazing, the (vague spoiler) Ophelia scene was a new unbelievably dark shade to the usual fun times, it was laugh out loud funny, super sexy (as always), I always appreciate wild takes on the Bard, and the band was ON FIRE!

Alli Miller and Sarah Haworth-Hodges killed it again and improved on what seemed un-improvable.

(Side note: my goal in life remains – “to be Schoen Hodges.”)

Brava and bravo.

Go as soon as possible. This’ll sell out every show. Buy now.

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