The powerful Miller's performance is at such a highest level, it feels like she's pulling the rest of the cast along with her in this ambitious show. But the choreographer makes cool use of long wooden sticks as Aida finally grabs one and hits it against those of her countrymen and women when she embraces her leadership role with the Nubians. Treva Offutt's choreography is basic for this cast. Paul Lowry has created elegant Egyptian-themed projections on a big screen upstage and on both sides of the proscenium. Inda Blatch-Geib's scenic design is clean, dominated by columns, and T. This show, playing in the newly renovated Jelliffe Theatre and directed by Tony Sias, is beautiful to look at. But in the first act, we don't feel he's believably starting to change as Aida begins to open his eyes to the destruction the Egyptians have wrought on the Nubians.
Yes, he's supposed to be a braggadocio warrior. The Elton John-Tim Rice show, based on the Verdi opera, opened on Broadway in 2000 and won four Tony awards, including best original score.įor the first act at Karamu House, Cleveland's African-American theater, Hill's acting was lacking in emotional depth. It's too bad that her leading man, though, Darelle Hill as Radames, took a while to warm up to his role as the other half of this star-crossed duo in Sunday's performance. She commands the stage with her mighty singing, intensely focused acting, beauty and grace in this story about an enslaved Nubian princess who ends up in a love triangle with her Egyptian captor and the Egyptian princess. In the musical "Aida" at Karamu House in Cleveland, actress Mary-Francis Miller creates a supreme blend of power and passion as the mythical title character.
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