THE LAST SESSION (2005) – Best Quote!

Gary Waldman & Jamison Troutman, theater producers, presented The Last Session at The Hollywood Playhouse (2005) … the following is a review published in The Palm Beach Post:

Gary Waldman – has produced another emotionally potent ride, far removed from his original mission of for-profit, entertainment-only theater … it is as moving as any area show in several seasons.

How ironic that Waldman, who used to take pride in valuing commerce over art in the theater, has now produced two shows – The Life and The Last Session – that no other company in South Florida is adventurous enough to touch, and done so with such artful poignancy.

– Hap Erstein

Gary Waldman in THE LAST SESSION

FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE (2006) Best Quote!

Gary Waldman & Jamison Troutman, theater producers, presented Five Guys Named Moe at Carmen’s Supper Club, Boca Raton, FL (2006) … the following is a review published in The South Florida Tribune.

Here is our favorite quote from Al Price in The South Florida Tribune:

… an extraordinary group of performers … it’s infectious!

THE LIFE (2004-2005) Best Quote!

Gary Waldman & Jamison Troutman, theater producers, presented the first ever regional production of the Broadway musical The Life  at the Atlantis Playhouse near West Palm Beach, FL.

Here is our favorite quote from Jack Zink in The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, June 14, 2004:

The show is a phenomenon both for the theater that houses it, and for the South Florida audiences whose eyebrows are going to be raised for the next few months.

Reshaped into a pocket-size production, the 1997 Broadway musical by Cy Coleman, Ira Gasman and David Newman nevertheless explodes in the tiny Boynton Beach storefront theater.

THE LIFE at the Atlantis Playhouse

SOPHIE, TOTIE & BELLE (2003) Best Quote!

Gary Waldman, Jamison Troutman presented multiple productions of the musical Sophie, Totie & Belle  in Florida and off-Broadway.

Here is our favorite quote from Jack Zink in The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, December 17, 2003:

The best R-rated act at the Friar’s Club, Heaven branch, is still Sophie, Totie & Belle

… by the end of the show, the suburban mall playhouse is rollicking like the old Miami Beach clubs

I WRITE THE SONGS (2003-2004) – Best Quote!

Gary Waldman, Jamison Troutman presented multiple productions of the musical I Write the Songs in Florida and throughout the southeast.

Here is our favorite quote from Bill Hirschman in The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, December 17, 2003:

… what makes this far more satisfying than a cloned greatest-hits album, a la ‘Billy Joel’s Movin’ Out’, is the contribution of Waldman and music director Phil Hinton. Their re-arrangements deconstruct the songs, studiously and ingeniously avoiding the Top 40 sound.

Bill Hirschman can be reached at 954-356-4513 or bhirschman@sun-sentinel.com.

PERFECT HARMONY – THE BARRY SISTERS STORY Best Quote!

Gary Waldman, Jamison Troutman and Kathi & Alan Glist produced a year-long  Florida tour of the musical Perfect Harmony from 1998-1999.

Here is our favorite quote from The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, October 19, 1998:

…as close to the real thing as you will probably ever get.

And as for that weary word, nostalgia, Perfect Harmony has no time for that. It’s too vibrant, too alive, too electrifying …

Gary Waldman directs this delicious reliving of a legend …

Kelly Briscoe & Michelle Regusa in PERFECT HARMONY THE BARRY SISTERS STORY

Bill von Maurer covered theater for more than a decade for The Miami News and is a frequent contributor to The Sun-Sentinel.

PAVED WITH GOLD National Tour – BEST QUOTE!

Gary Waldman and Jamison Troutman produced a 7-year National Tour of the musical Paved With Gold from 1992-1997.

Here is our favorite quote from The South Florida Sun-Senitnel, January 10, 1996:

 

“Seventy-five percent (my estimate) of the songs and dialogue in Paved With Gold are in Yiddish. No need to worry. They could be in Tibetan for that matter, thanks to the two-character cast of the man and wife singing and dancing team of Gary and Janice Waldman. Their great voices, dynamic energy and whirlwind personalities knock down all barriers, ethnic or linguistic, to two hours of sheer pleasure.”

Janice & Gary Waldman in PAVED WITH GOLD

• Bill von Maurer covered theater for more than a decade for The Miami News and is a frequent contributor to The Sun-Sentinel.