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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 9, 2002
Closed Oct 27, 2002

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

TUTS presents the world premiere of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, with book by Henry Farrell, author of the novel on which the classic Bette Davis-Joan Crawford movie was based. Music is by Lee Pockriss and lyrics by Hal Hackady, both Broadway veterans. Millicent Martin, British star of musical theatre, television and
movies, will play the key role of Jane Hudson.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Theatre Under the Stars at Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
800 Bagby St
Houston, TX 77002


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


What's a poor woman to do when her sister serves her rat for dinner? If you answered, "Break into hysterics," you haven't seen the world premiere musical What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? What made Joan Crawford shriek in horror and zoom madly about in her wheelchair in the 1962 movie of Baby Jane causes the stage version of Blanche Hudson to break into song -- and a pretty, life-affirming ballad at that.

Such incongruity between the plot and the musical numbers is what often mars this ambitious production by Houston's Theatre Under the Stars and Michael Rose Limited. That's a shame, because beneath the mishmash of ill-conceived songs, dances, and stunted motivations, there lies[...]


Reviewed by Holly Hildebrand on Oct 17, 2002

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