“Live theater is back in Duluth!” Phillip Fazio proclaimed at the NorShor Theatre on opening night.
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Lawrance Bernabo, For the News Tribune | 8:35 pm, Jul. 18, 2021 ×
Stuart Gordon (left) and Kelly Killorin (Duluth Playhouse)
I would be hard pressed to name a musical that takes itself less seriously than “Xanadu,” which opened Thursday night at the NorShor Theatre. Especially the way director Phillip Fazio and choreographer Amber Burns amped up the silliness.
The quintessential scene of this production comes early when Quinn Lorez and Maddie Schafer as the Muses Melpomene and Calliope rip through “Evil Woman.” While Lorez delivers the big vocals, Schafer channels Kristen Wiig and Cecily Strong at the same time and kills the comic counterpoint.
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Rose Byrne – international movie star and
FHM Australia’s 16th sexiest woman in the world (2006) – has a terrible internet connection. It takes her two goes to join our Zoom, and from that point on she’ll freeze roughly every four minutes through our hour-long talk, get stuck in a vast range of facial expressions – aghast, amused, evasive, perturbed, shocked, etc – most of which would be deeply unflattering on a less beautiful woman.
This is frustrating, while creating a degree of instant intimacy between us, because that’s all any of us are now, isn’t it? Film stars and journalists and politicians and Pilates instructors and formerly ferocious bosses alike: defined by our internet speeds and connections, similarly reduced by their inadequacies.
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