Like original cast members Baayork Lee and Wayne Cilento, Hamilton is a keeper of the flame of the late Michael Bennett’s iconic direction, keeping it alive in subsequent productions like this one. Still, it is an exceedingly difficult show to pull off well, but you would never know it from the pitch-perfect Wick production, staged by Mitzi Hamilton, a veteran of the show’s original London company and later of the Broadway cast, as well as the inspiration for the character Val of “Dance: 10, Looks: 3” renown. Of course, it had a head start with the nine-time Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning show which strips the musical of its usual colorful sets and costumes for a look backstage at chorus dancer auditions led by Zach, a somewhat sadistic director-choreographer who uses his power to pry into the lives of his cast hopefuls. Efforts will be made to bring the show back next month, but if you missed one of these bygone shows, you missed what is arguably the best work in the Boca Raton troupe’s seven seasons of operation.
Then there is The Wick Theatre, which threw caution to the wind and opened its scheduled production of A Chorus Line, at least for two performances this past weekend.
Due to “an abundance of caution,” either self-inflicted or by governmental fiat, virtually every stage company in South Florida has postponed or canceled its March show, citing the dangers of communal theatergoing in this time of coronavirus.
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