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NY City Center Encores!

February 5-8, 2009

Kristin Chenowith and Sierra Boggess, both with powerhouse voices and enormous attitude, lit up this wonderfully obscure operetta at City Center last Friday. Set in Munich, it follows the story of a cooky father and his daughter through their crazy introduction to the world of professional theater, and a somewhat stunted rise to the top. A Kern and Hammerstein collaboration, it first premiered in 1932 and has some gorgeous (albeit borderline nauseatingly repetitive) refrains that remind you of old-school musical theater, pre Sir Elton and Sir Webber, that are adapted beautifully by the gigantic on-stage orchestra.