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Theatre Reviews

After the death of Judy Gar­land, a reporter comes to inter­view Dean­na Durbin about their sup­posed rival­ry. She rem­i­nisces about their friend­ship and her time in Hol­ly­wood as a major child movie star dur­ing the 1930s and 1940s. The sto­ry tells Durbin’s incred­i­ble life sto­ry includ­ing being born in Win­nipeg, hired and fired by MGM, how she saved Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios, became an inspi­ra­tion for the sol­diers dur­ing World War II and left movies to start a fam­i­ly.

The music is ter­rif­ic and I liked how writer/​performer Melanie Gall presents both the cheery songs of the 1930s and the patri­ot­ic war songs of the 1940s. By show­ing both Dean­na and Judy, this show acts as a nice com­pare and con­trast between two dif­fer­ent child stars — one who stayed in show busi­ness and ran into prob­lems with drugs and one who left and lived a qui­et life. How­ev­er, too many fum­bled lines on Mon­day night reduced my enjoy­ment, but still it’s a nice lit­tle Fringe show.

Venue 6 — Tom Hendry Ware­house
Musi­cal
60 Min­utes
Gen­er­al Audi­ence
Acces­si­bil­i­ty: low vision/​blind