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• ‘Pump Boys and Dinettes’ promises loads of down-home fun

  July 22, 2010 in Features on Page C1 “Pump Boys and Dinettes” is a 1980s country-rock musical revue heaped full of songs but over-easy on the plot and drama. There’s just enough dialogue to stitch the songs together.

• Travolta siblings take stage in CdA Theatre’s ‘Cinderella’

  July 1, 2010 in Features on Page C1 “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” has a special distinction among musicals: It didn’t start out as a Broadway show. It was a made-for-TV event starring Julie Andrews in 1957 and became …

• A laugh-out-loud look at middle school

  June 13, 2010 in News, Idaho Here’s a show that evokes the insecurities, the social ineptitude and the general terror of middle school – and transforms it into about two hours of nonstop fun.

• CdA Summer Theatre stages ‘Putnam County Spelling Bee’

  June 10, 2010 in Features on Page C1 Who would have guessed that a middle-school spelling bee would make a great musical? And who could have guessed that “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” would be a …

• ‘La Cage’ a fun, flashy show

  June 29, 2008 in City on Page B2 About a half-hour into this show, I realized that the best way to describe “La Cage aux Folles” is “old-fashioned.” Really? A show that features a stage full of men …