{"id":963,"date":"2011-09-04T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2023-07-09T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:28:57","slug":"963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Sirens: the Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/0511-0809-1916-1317_Vintage_Cartoon_1950s_Police_Car_Clipart_clipart_image.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-964 aligncenter\" title=\"0511-0809-1916-1317_Vintage_Cartoon_1950s_Police_Car_Clipart_clipart_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/0511-0809-1916-1317_Vintage_Cartoon_1950s_Police_Car_Clipart_clipart_image.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Often when I see original musicals, especially those in Fringe Festivals and early in their development, the music is the most promising aspect of the show, but often the characters are the equivalent of cardboard or the dialogue is rocky or the plot is thin as Tommy Tune. <em>Sirens: The Musical<\/em>, now playing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticfringe.ca\">Atlantic Fringe Festival <\/a>is a strange and fascinating exception to this rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sirens: The Musical has two strong, quirky, compelling and unique protagonists, female police officers in New York City. It has snappy, witty dialogue that usually complements its strong and vibrant protagonists. <em>Sirens: The Musical<\/em> actually has the makings of what could grow to become a really interesting play. I did wonder why when the husband comes to report his wife missing that the two officers don\u2019t consider the possibility that she has been kidnapped and I also wondered why, of all the possibilities a missing wife presented, that the writers Stephanie Johns, Allison Saunders and Tara Thorne picked such a simplistic and anticlimactic journey for their powerful protagonists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a musical at the moment <em>Sirens<\/em> is playing as an unintentionally campy Fringe show whose performers have embraced its campiness. So, in this way, the show is absolutely entertaining for its audiences. Yet, <em>Sirens<\/em> still falls in the wonky middle ground between being an overt, flamboyant, deliberate, postmodern musical pastiche and being a sincere book musical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The music for this show has not found its distinctive sound yet and its lyrics, especially the rhymes, could benefit from being tightened up. Also the transitions into the songs are bumpy and the characters tend to lose themselves in them rather than the act of singing enhancing or solidifying their personalities or driving the plot forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Sirens: The Musical<\/em> seems to be still very early in its development, but I think that this team has a lot of interesting material and great potential to work with.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sirens: The Musical<\/em> plays at the Living Room (2353 Agricola Street) at the following times. It is $7.00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday September 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 7:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday September 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 7:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday September 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 7:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday September 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To book advanced tickets please visit Neptune Theatre\u2019s Box Office, 1593 Argyle Street or call 902.429.7070 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticfringe.ca\/\">www.atlanticfringe.ca<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Same Day Sales are available at the venue\u00a0(Neptune Studio Theatre) From\u00a01 Hour Before the First Show of the Day.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often when I see original musicals, especially those in Fringe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4671],"tags":[4048,3212,5771,4047,4698],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-allison-saunders","tag-halifax-fringe","tag-stephanie-johns","tag-tara-thorne","tag-the-living-room"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sirens: the Musical - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; 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