REVIEW QUOTES:
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND"An energetic and vibrantly powerful musical…A visually stunning piece of musical theatre…"
--The Sag Harbor Express"Thanks to the enchanting production at Bay Street Theatre, "Once on This Island" feels right at home in the tropics of a South Fork summer…Around a campfire that flickers from the earthy floor of Troy Hourie's page-turning storyboard set, an ensemble of griots brings to life a Caribbean legend of undying love
that survives a peasant girl's mortality."…
directed with an unwavering vision by Marcia Milgrom Dodge."
--Newsday"With her fluid and creative direction and choreography, Marcia Milgrom Dodge makes wondrous use of fabric, light, and the actors themselves to delineate the world the play inhabits… "
--East Hampton Independent"Bay Street's farewell to summer is a beautifully produced, ebullient musical…Perhaps it is Marcia Dodge's direction and choreography that are the key to a successful transformation from a Broadway event to a somewhat different and seemingly effortless production…
One is reminded of Theatre de Complicite productions, which have been duly praised, but this production
is in every way equal or a step above them."
--The East Hampton Star"...an ensemble of singer/dancer/actors wedded as closely and inevitably as dawn is to day, and a director/choreographer with endlessly fresh imagination and inventiveness. Marcia Milgrom Dodge's use of Bay Street's space is breathtakingly diverse, from wild dancing ensembles to emotionally gripping moments of love and tragedy to delicious puppetry to native takes on Japanese Noh Theater."
--The Southampton Press
AIN'T MISBEHAVIN
"Dodge weaves song and dance together with
finesse and self-deprecating humor."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"This version of Ain't Misbehavin' is invested
with new verve and flair by director/choreographer
Marcia Milgrom Dodge's inventive, visceral staging."
--The Times Union"As staged by Dodge, the action never stops. . .Dodge deserves tremendous credit for infusing the show with such life."
--The Pittsfield Gazette"To the credit of Marcia Milgrom Dodge the show is a
toe-tapping good time, packed with energy, variety,
humor and an absolute love of music and life."
--The Litchfield County Times". . .director Dodge has in essence returned us to the heart and beginnings of the music of 'Fats' Waller."
--WBRK 1340 AM"Director & Choreographer Marcia MilgromDodge
and her sassy troupe have made sure that there isn't
a dull moment in the whole shebang!"
. . .Under the inspired hand of director Marcia Milgrom Dodge, the cast sing, dance and act their way into the audience's heart."
--OnStage Magazine
ON THE TOWN
"Refreshingly, Marcia Milgrom Dodge seems unconcerned by the shadow of Jerry Robbins. . .Her dances follow the themes of the original. . . but boast their own vitality and identity. From a gemlike pas de deux sidewalk encounter to a dreamy Coney Island boxing bout and an idealized, dancing Gabey,
Miss Dodge's work is breathtaking."
--The Washington Times"The dancing has a jump-for-joy explosiveness. . .
a second act dream ballet adds sizzle to the sinew."
--The Washington Post"It's a very hot-blooded show. . .
"Marcia Milgrom Dodge's juicy revival never lets you forget it for a moment, piling on sexy performers and combustive dances that goose your pleasure points with their hot-to-trot exuberance. . .
It's fitting that a female director should hit the bulls-eye
with this urban fantasy. . .
Under Miss Dodge's confident direction, the production has the fluency of a ballet, even when the performers are not dancing.
This lightness of touch enhances the aura of the
show as a modern fairy tale…"
--The New York Times"This new staging by Marcia Milgrom Dodge is as bright and shiny as a new penny found on an old city street. . .Dodge's direction proves speedy without haste and effective without strain."
--The New York Post
OF THEE I SING
"Marcia Milgrom Dodge has provided jump for joy choreography.
. . .it pours effusive tap-dancing on top of everything!"
--The Washington Post"Marcia Milgrom Dodge builds her dance production
numbers into the highlights."
--The Washington Times
CLOSER THAN EVER
"imaginative & clever, fast-paced choreography
are entertainment enough"
--The Globe & Mail"Marcia Milgrom Dodge's musical staging provides moves that heighten the comedy and add a sting of irony. . ."
--The Washington Times". . .seductive!"
--San Francisco Enquirer
CASINO PARADISE
"The staging is in, a word, brilliant.
--Philadelphia City Paper
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
"Choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge keeps the performers in motion. The most inspired scene in which Frank, Mary and Charlie go spinning across the floor on rolling chairs, taking their piano, typing table and desk with them!"
--The Olney-courier Gazette
THE MUSIC MAN
"Marcia Milgrom Dodge makes a brilliant debut with City Opera as choreographer for The Music Man, no small assignment in this dance-filled show. The SHIPOOPI number is a real hoedown imaginatively transformed by most of the dance predilections
of pre-World War I America."
--UPI
SULLIVAN & GILBERT
"… lively choreography keeps the musical
proceedings light and bouncy."
--Variety
SHE LOVES ME
"Marcia Milgrom Dodge does a selfless job of invisible choreography. She makes us feel as if the characters are never really dancing,
just moving to the giddy spirits within them."
--The News American
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
"All the surprises in the superbly inventive direction of Marcia Milgrom Dodge . . .were met with often-explosive roars of laughter, bursts of applause and yells of delight."
--Sacramento Bee