The Peoria Journal Star posted their review of Singing in the Rain, and it’s a hit!  Gary Panetta had nothing but good to say about the show.  For the past couple of shows, we’ve actually gone down to the Journal Star at midnight to get a paper, and taken it back to the cast party to read it to the group.  Anyway, a few things that he said:

…the other standout is Harry Williams, who plays Cosmo Brown, a wise-cracking musician and Don Lockwood’s sidekick. Not only can Williams sing and pound the piano, but he’s also admirably light on his feet: He leaps in the air, clicks his heels, tumbles to a prone position on the stage floor, does a push up or two, pivots on one arm, bounds to his feet and cartwheels across the stage.

Put Williams together with Huerta and Laura Miller, who plays Kathy Selden, Don Lockwood’s love interest, and you have some dynamic dance numbers choreographed by Erica Franken. One moment, Huerta and Williams are spinning and twirling a bespectacled, goggle-eyed diction coach played by Bill Ciardini. The next moment, Ciardini’s head has popped through an oversized paper sign. Look again, and Miller, Huerta and Williams are wrapping up a dance extravaganza by riding a couch as it topples over, and somehow wind up in sitting position, appearing quite breathless.

…Here is a show that truly drenches everything but the spirit. Don’t miss this one.

Read the full review by clicking here.

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