First review of Houston's Jane Eyre

The Houston Chronicle publishes a review of the Jane Eyre production that we pointed out yesterday. The reviewer, Everett Evans, compares the Broadway's big and Masquerade's little productions of Jane Eyre and concludes that

Despite a few moments when the minimal resources create awkwardness in director Phillip Duggins' staging of action scenes (such as the climactic fire), you don't really miss the big production. Less elaborately embellished, Gordon's score and Caird's book register as a solid, serious-minded and heartfelt retelling of the story.

The review discusses also the performances fo the actors and the director's work.

(Kristina) Sullivan instills the heroine with somber composure, quiet strength and resilience. She achieves a sense of depth beneath a placid exterior, conveying the spiritual growth caused by her suffering. Her many solos gain character and color from her vivid singing, with an interesting quality in her lower register.
Luther Chakurian brings vocal power and physical force to his impressively brooding, tormented Rochester — even when some of his solos stray perilously close to Frank Wildhorn territory.

In the picture Jane (Kristina Sullivan) and Edward (Luther Chakurian), in Jane Eyre.
Picture credits: Meenu Bhardwaj

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