In “Respect,” creator Dorothy Marcic uses archeological and anthropological techniques to find songs — from “Bill Bailey” to “Stand by Your Man” to “This One’s for the Girls” — and to arrange them in an engaging, compelling and funny narrative…
You go, girl! shouts are being triggered by a musical march through the 20th century, tracing the travails and triumphs of women as they have clawed their way from second-class citizenship to empowerment.
To understand the progress of women in America, you could read dusty-yet-worthy tomes about the fight for suffrage. You could take a college class in women’s issues. Or you could pull that old record player out of the closet, dig out that stack of 45s and sing along with Aretha, Janis, The Supremes and Dorothy Marcic.
Respect is a polished, ‘feel good to be a girl’ show that is performed in good taste as it showcases the achievements of women as well as becoming a vehicle for Culberson, Fitzpatrick and Price to strut their talents.
The bottom line here is that this show that has been playing to full houses, is a feel-good, can’t-stop-raving-about-it BALL, and a MUST SEE! You Go, Girl!
The music was great, the singing superb, and the script solid. What a great evening of theater!
This is definitely one entertainment you will want to see. Who knows, you maybe even want to go back and see it again, it’s that good.
Marcic’s new musical Respect: A Musical Journey of Women, will open Friday at the Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach. The show tracks women’s history through more than 50 popular songs.
It’s fun, it’s entertaining, but it also gives you an awareness of the human condition. And you don’t listen to songs the same way after seeing this show.
