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The BSO subscription season begins this Thursday night with a lively and celebratory program HERE which finds the orchestra toasting itself through a namesake overture by John Williams, finding its place within the Planets, and showcasing the debut of pianist Awadagin Pratt in Bach’s Concerto in A Major and in Rounds, for piano and string orchestra, a new work written for him by the young Jessie Montgomery. Imagine Merman projecting to the back rows in Annie Get Your Gun…singers needed great pipes until amplification changed belting to crooning. I remember that 1973 Pinafore well, as the last musical I heard anywhere without amplification. Flo Ziegfeld launched his Follies there, and notable players, playwrights and composers at the house include Irving Berlin, Sigmund Romberg, Richard Rogers, and Oscar Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Ether Merman, the Gershwins, Katherine Cornell Lunt and Fontaine, Katherine Cornell Tyrone Power, Paul Robeson, Laurence Olivier, Doyly Carte Company with the great John Reed. It narrowly escaped conversion to a food court six years ago. Blackall’s (he did many important theaters in Boston as well as Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline) most gracious creations, the Colonial Theater opened on December 20, 1900, and through, war and pestilence remained a beloved venue for important premieres and tryouts of plays and musicals.

The oldest Boston theater to survive intact and one of Boston architect C.H. Our interesting interview with Lauren Michelle, the show’s Mimi, follows several paragraphs down. This feature will first discuss the venue. For this production, director Yuval Sharon runs Act IV first and adds a “Wanderer”/interlocutor to explain the proceedings.īoston Lyric Opera presents the favorite opera of starving artists and thwarted lovers September 23 rd through October 2 nd at the Colonial Theater…except the lovers don’t end up thwarted. Witnessing Puccini’s La bohéme from the venerable Boston Lyric Opera adds another dollop. Seeing and hearing any classical show in the magical and inspiring Emerson Colonial Theater interests us tremendously.

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