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“Don’t Be Cruel,” “Let Yourself Go,” put on your “Blue Suede Shoes,” and treat yourself to All Shook Up.

Hairspray is good; it is solid. There are some top-notch performances and some WOW moments, but it is not quite the same home run that the theatre nailed in their last several shows.

As always, Toby’s offers amazing Broadway-quality costumes, set pieces, lighting, and props; and delivers a piece of nostalgia that will truly have you saying “There’s no place like home!”

Although Milburn Stone Theatre’s cast seemed to do their best to breathe believability and life into these scenes, it was hard to create backstory and nuance where there was none.

Real, no holds barred, creative, talented, professional theatre exists right here on the campus of Cecil College at the Milburn Stone Theatre!

The production and design team do a nice job with the set, lighting, sound and most props; sadly, it’s just not enough to make the show work.

Pheonix Festival Theatre’s production, at the helm of director John Desmone, knocks it out of the park!

If you have children…or even if you don’t…this is definitely a production worth making the effort to see sometime in the next two weekends.

The performances in Pumpkin Theatre’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dayrange from solid to outstanding, and the only real critiques are more technical in nature.

There could be a novel written about every element that works beautiful and seamlessly in Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore’s production of Smokey Joe’s Café.