Elevator Pitch/Thoughts/Tweet: “Swimming While Drowning” play at ArtsWest. Delightful funny repartee between runaway teenagers that are total opposites rooming together at a gay homeless shelter. Sweet innocent bed scene. What was the address at the end? #poetry #lgbt
Type: Play
Recommendation: See it if you like plays with only 2 actors and plays that are mostly dialogue. I usually don’t but this wasn’t bad.
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4 stars
Theater Company: ArtsWest
Venue: ArtsWest – 4711 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116
Megan Reinking (Ellen Griswold), Hunter Foster (Clark Griswold), Livvy Marcus (Audrey Griswold), and Nathan Levy (Rusty Griswold). Photo Credit: Tracy Martin.
Elevator Pitch/Thoughts/Tweet: “The Griswold’s Broadway Vacation” mmusical at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Pleasantly surprised it featured Hunter Foster. Fantastic bright sets, props, & costumes. New York tourist trap haven. Easy 1980s sitcom-like conflict resolutions. Basic all-American themes, heart, & family. Loved the hick chic fashion montage. #theatre #NYC #Manhattan
Type: Musical
Recommendation: See it! Even if you didn’t see the movies (I didn’t).
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4.5 stars
Other Rants
Did a the teacher go on dates with the student back in the day? Weird.
A little too all-American. Despite the inclusive casting, the perspective isn’t very accessible to ethnicities. But I guess that’s not the fault of the musical but more the fault of the movie series.
Have they not heard of Stub Hub? Major plot hole here!
Other Raves
Loved Rusty Griswold’s side quests
Theater Company: The 5th Avenue Theatre
Venue: The 5th Avenue Theatre – 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Megan Reinking as Ellen Griswold, Livvy Marcus as Audrey Griswold, Jen Cody, Nathan Levy as Rusty Griswold, and Hunter Foster as Clark Griswold. Photo Credit: Tracy Martin.Hunter Foster as Clark Griswold and Livvy Marcus as Audrey Griswold. Photo Credit: Mark Kitaoka.Jen Cody as Madame Sherie, Megan Reinking as Ellen Griswold, and Alan H. Green as the Naked Commando. Photo Credit: Tracy Martin.Jay Klaitz as Cousin Eddie. Photo Credit: Tracy Martin.Megan Reinking and Hunter Foster star as Ellen and Clark Griswold in the world premiere of The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation. Photo Credit: Mark Kitaoka.Alan H. Green (center) as the Naked Commando and the cast of The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation. Photo Credit: Tracy Martin.
Actors: Aviona Rodriguez Brown, Beth Pollack, Jasmine Lomax, Sofía Raquel Sánchez, Quetzie Taborga, Carolynne Wilcox. Photo: Anthony Floyd
Elevator Pitch/Thoughts/Tweet: “In the Time of the #Butterflies” play adaptation of the book w/ Book-It Repertory Theatre at Seattle Center. Extraordinary Mirabal mariposa sisters fight against “El Jefe’s” tyranny in the Dominican Republic. Timely piece for the invasion in Ukraine. #butterfly #mariposas #dominicanRepublic #theatre
Type: Play
Recommendation: See it especially if you like history.
Rating (Out of 5 Stars): 4 stars
Theater Company: Book-it Repertory Theatre
Venue: Center Theatre at Seattle Center Armory – 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109
“Cloud Tectonics” play opening night w/ Sound Theatre Company at 12th Avenue Arts. A beautiful mysterious pregnant hitchhiker uncontrollably stops time. Wondering if there was anything more to the sun & moon symbolism. #theatre #Latino #Latin #latina #latinx
Type: Play
Theater Company: SecondStory Repertory Theatre
Venue: 12th Avenue Arts – 1620 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
