The tenuous relationship between two brothers, one mentally challenged, and the vagrant who enters their lives is the setting for Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker,” which opens next week at the Curran Theatre with award-winning Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce.It’s been a long time since Pryce has visited San Francisco.
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Even without splitting his pants on opening night, Hugh Jackman would be a big hit in The City.Yet, as he said at the end of his nearly two-hour show at the Curran Theatre on Wednesday, even though everything that could have gone wrong did — he had a great time. The Australian star of stage and screen and People magazine’s 2008 sexiest man alive simply oozes charisma. He put on a great show, too, with the sum better than its individual parts.
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For Constantine Maroulis, playing the lead in the musical “Rock of Ages” represents a very particular dream come true. “I wanted to be in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and ‘West Side Story’ at the same time,” he says with enthusiasm, knowing how his background was perfect preparation for the role of an aspiring rocker in the hit 1980s-set jukebox musical opening Wednesdsay at the Curran Theatre.
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As the dynamic rock score ratchets up in the opening number of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Next to Normal,” and as perky blond Mom Diana ends up on the floor, frenetically making sandwiches with her appalled family looking on, we’re forewarned: This is not going to be a comedy.“Next to Normal” is in fact anything but a normal Broadway show.
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For Alice Ripley, playing the lead in the acclaimed musical “Next to Normal” is not a matter of choice.“I can’t say no to Diana. She’s going to have to say no to me sometime,” the San Leandro-born, Midwest-bred actress says during a phone interview.Opening next week at the Curran Theatre, the show — about ups and downs in a modern suburban family — is remarkable because it is simultaneously, and extremely, meaningful and emotional.
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