Maria Hefte

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Jordan Lawrence soars in royal role at Rivertown Theaters
March 22, 2025March 28, 2025

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” is the basis for Once Upon a Mattress, the 1959 musical that launched the Broadway career of Carol Burnett as Princess Winifred – “Fred” for short – the Wobegone. A 1996 production starring Sarah Jessica Parker…

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Resplendent ‘Cinderella’ is a singing delight for JPAS
April 21, 2022April 28, 2022

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II set out to write Cinderella, their only musical to be aired over the nascent medium of live television, they could not have envisioned it would eventually be transformed into a full-fledged Broadway stage production nor that it would eventually be…

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