There’s a new kid on the theater block—The Sandbox Collective, a subsidiary arm of the theater company 9 Works Theatrical. And it will make its debut with “Dani Girl,” an Off-Broadway musical by young American composers Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond.
“Why is cancer?”—with a line like this, you know that you’re in for a different kind of show in The Sandbox Collective’s latest offering, “Dani Girl.” How in the world does one create a cancer musical?
One of the things one learns studying Literary Criticism is that objectivity in the classic sense is an impossibility. A theatrical review, for example, does not come out of nowhere, and is always deeply influenced by the values and life experience of the reviewer. The best he can do is be aware of his biases as he writes.
‘Art definitely has healing capabilities. It’s that realization that one must live in the now, and live life to the fullest’
A boy locks himself in his bathroom for a year. Two sadomasochistic sisters plot to kill their employer. Five men hired to carry out a murder end up killing themselves.
She has enchanted us as Anna in “The King and I”; made us cry buckets as the mom of a child sick with cancer in “Dani Girl”; and had us in stitches when she took on the role of theater actor Belinda Blair in the play-within-a-play “Noises Off.”
Sisters gone cuckoo and a pair of cancer-stricken kids were the unlikely stars of the two stage productions that played the Peta Theater Center’s Main Theater, during The Sandbox Collective’s multi-arts festival “The Imaginarium,” which ran Oct. 28-31.
The Sandbox Collective is celebrating its fifth year with the restaging of its heartwarming maiden musical “Dani Girl,” this time with younger actors.
Watching a restaging of a play can be a double-edged experience for a viewer, particularly if the original version was...
Michael Kooman & Christopher Dimond’s musical “Dani Girl” was the maiden production of The Sandbox Collective, and for their fifth...
