James Sims

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  • Peter Pan Crows Again With Disney Magic, Off-Broadway

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    James Sims

    Red hair. Green tights. Cap and feather. It’s a getup every child could recognize and quickly pick out as belonging to Peter Pan, that mischievous youth that never seems to grow up. He might be an English character, penned by a Scottish writer, but Peter Pan embodies a timeless personality, one that has remained the…

  • Marvelous Wonderettes Closes Its Gym Doors

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    James Sims

    Move over Rydell High, there is a new group of singing teenage starlets on stage hailing from Springfield High, and they are making audiences flip as they relive their 1958 Senior Prom to some doo-wop classics. Off-Broadway’s The Marvelous Wonderettes has been playing to enthusiastic crowds at The Westside Theatre since it settled in New…

  • Rock of Ages Shakes Up Broadway

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    James Sims

    Not everyone will find the huge serving of 80s nostalgia and rock anthems appealing, but those tired of yet another revival might just discover their own golden ticket to the Broadway experience. In a time when theatre producers are checking pay phones for loose change, a guilty pleasure like “Rock of Ages” has potential to…

  • South Pacific Shines on Blu-Ray

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    James Sims

    The last time I screened the film adaptation of Broadway’s “South Pacific,” I was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force serving in the Pacific. With no Japanese war looming, the movie acted more as a nostalgic look backwards, painted with warm pastels that starkly contrasted anything seen around my military base at the time. It…