Marie Becnel

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JPAS unwraps ‘Marvelous Wonderettes’ in Westwego
March 16, 2018

By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out“) The Jefferson Performing Arts Society brought out an oldie, but a goodie this past week when it opened the Roger Bean standby The Marvelous Wonderettes, a four-woman mashup of late 1950s and early 1960s pop classics. Directed and choreographed by Jonathan Drury, this cast has some amazing…

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‘Tarzan’ swings across JPAS stage; Hwang’s book uneven
March 19, 2017March 20, 2017

By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out“) In 1999 the Walt Disney Animation Studios released “Tarzan,” which would be its final major animated film during the Disney Renaissance era that began a decade earlier with “The Little Mermaid.” Based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel “Tarzan of the Apes,” told the story of the…

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