New musicals are the most difficult for Berkshire theatres to put together successfully for the simple reason that there are twice as many creative voices to be heard and not much more time for hashing it all out than for a simple play. Just scan the credits in the program and there they are: music director...
PITTSFIELD, MASS. — Try to top this for typecasting: The daffy, adorable Annie Golden plays, yes, the daffy, adorable Annie Golden in “Broadway Bounty Hunter,” a sweet if slight goof of a musical, making its premiere at Barrington Stage Company here.The show, featuring songs by Joe Iconis and a book by...
PITTSFIELD — If ever a show was powered by sheer adrenaline, it’s “Broadway Bounty Hunter.’’ Well, that and the fertile mind of composer-lyricist and co-librettist Joe Iconis. He’s the primary creative force behind this rollicking musical mash-up, now receiving its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company...
Annie Golden calls herself the “flower child who will not wilt,” and she has continued to blossom since she landed on the scene as Jeanie in the 1979 Hair film. She’s appeared on Broadway in On the Town, Xanadu, and Violet, but these days most people recognize her as the almost silent inmate Norma...
