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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Broadway's Rising Stars

Photo Coverage by Maryann Lopinto
Captions and Review: By Corine Cohen
First Half
Cast: Alexander Arroyo, Michael August, Katie Babb, Stephanie Barnum, Abby Baum, Stephen Bel Davies, Kirby Burgess, Darcie Champagne, Mike Cruz, Laura D'Andre, Elizabeth Daniels, Chris DiCristo Jr, Dayna Garber, Stacie Greenwell, Natalie Hall,
Reggie Headen, Paige Hutchison, Erica Jacob, Lauren Marcus, Justin McConnaughy, Sara Sawyer and Jared Weiss.

The cast worked very well together considering the small amount of time they had to prepare for this show. Some of the standouts in the first half:

Chris Di Cristo stole the crowd with his hilarious take on "Beauty School Dropout"
Transforming the song into the next American Idol competition. He has a lot of spunk and edge and most of the audience loved it. (I personally prefer the old way of singing which does not include screaming) But the crowd went wild for him.

I went wild for the following numbers:

Till There Was You- Performed by Stephanie Barnum
Sailing- Performed by Michael August
Mister Snow- Performed by Lauren Marcus.

Part 2 coming later.