Shonna McEachern as Shelby Thorpe, Liza Giangrande as Percy Talbott, Kerry A. Dowling as Hannah Ferguson
Liza Giangrande as Percy Talbott, Cristhian Mancinas-García as The Visitor
Liza Giangrande as Percy Talbott, Kerry A. Dowling as Hannah Ferguson, Shonna McEachern as Shelby Thorpe
Shonna McEachern as Shelby Thorpe, Liza Giangrande as Percy Talbott, Kerry A. Dowling as Hannah Ferguson
The Spitfire Grill
The Umbrella Stage Company
Direction/Choreography:
Ilyse Robbins
Music Direction: Jack Cline
Set design: Janie E. Howland
Lighting design: Karen Perlow
Sound design: Alex Berg
Costume design: Kelly Baker
Properties Design: Julia Wonkka
Production Stage Manager: Shauwna Dias Grillo
Photo credits: Jim Sabitus
"Director Ilyse Robbins’s choreographic sensibility is evident again and again in the nicely paced action of this production. There is a lot of music, a lot of singing, and very little dancing, and yet props like pots and pans and table settings are handled in tight rhythm to the music."
LYNNE WEISS - Stage and Cinema
"Perceptively staged and choreographed by Ilyse Robbins, the musical adaptation of "THE SPITFIRE GRILL" is based on the 1996 film by Lee David Zlotoff. "
Kevin T. Baldwin - METRMAG
"Based on the 1996 film by Lee David Zlotoff, warmly directed by Ilyse Robbins, and with haunting music direction by Jack Cline, The Spitfire Grill musical continues live and in person at Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, Massachusetts through Sunday, May 18."
Jeanne Denizard - The Sleepless Critic
"But it’s the glorious emotion of Giangrande in word and song that drives the action, staged delicately by Ilyse Robbins and bringing a lump to the throat."
Bob Verini - Verini Views
"If you’ve been disappointed by the artistic emptiness of the string of popular movies that Broadway has turned into mediocre shows in recent years (A Christmas Story, Mean Girls, etc.), the Umbrella Stage Company and director Ilyse Robbins are offering up a charming exception to the genre with the quietly beautiful The Spitfire Grill... The Umbrella Stage Company and Robbins have given audiences something special. See it. "
Mike Hoban - Theater Mirror
"The Umbrella Stage Company has assembled a cast of some of the most gifted actors in greater Boston under the well paced direction of Ilyse Robbins, and added a pitch-perfect pit band and first-rate design and technical elements, to create a production of the show at Umbrella Arts in Concord through May 18 that is nothing less than an embarrassment of riches."
R. Scott Reedy - Broadway World