Bob Abelman

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, A LIVE RADIO PLAY: The charm alone is enough to get an angel its wings

If this Gamm Theatre production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play was any more adorable, it would be licking your nose and following you home from the theatre. How could it not be adorable? Its source material is the abundantly charming 1946 holiday film classic directed by Frank Capra and starring everyman […]

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HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS, THE MUSICAL: Quite the fan, I am

I can’t stand the Bard’s pentameter verse Though Gilbert & Sullivan bothers me worseBut the one writing style for which I’ve no useIs the preening rhymed scheming of one Dr. Seuss The Grinch’s tetrameter is hard to endureParticularly sung and when presented on tourAnd it’s no help at all if you first read the bookYou’ll be […]

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL: Trinity Rep once again comes a’carolling

Charles Dickens’ play A Christmas Carol was so popular in London in 1843, the year the novella on which it was based was released, that there were eight stage productions playing concurrently by Christmas Eve.   His play is popular still if the nearly two million people who have seen the annual holiday classic at Trinity Repertory […]

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