REVIEWS FOR "THE BEST LITLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC "

"A FAST AND FUNNY, SOLID CHARMER! Brooke Jacob's deep tones and talent for clear, attractive riffs beautifully enhance the score's hidden gem of a ballad, "Picture Show," where Mona traces her life's ups and downs. Brett Rigby's role - which he does very well - gets to show off some belty pipes in a nightclubbish solo, "A Change In Me." Burley comic Brian Tom O'Connor is great fun. A trio of divine-looking honeys (Dana Barathy, Rebecca Greenberg and Lexi Windsor) plays the brothel's star attractions with humor and sex-appeal while Jason B. Schmidt and Justin Jones camp it up grandly as the evil IRS director and his assistant.  Rachel Louise Thomas is earnestly perky as the government official trying to get the whorehouse back on its feet… so to speak… and Bryce Bermingham shines in various small roles.

The unamplified vocals of the whole company sound strong and clear under music director Michael Lavine, who's on stage at piano.  One of the amazing things about the Opening Doors Company is their ability to stage full-out presentations with large casts without crowding the small Duplex stage.  Director Hector Coris and choreographer Dana Boll deliver a swift, fully entertaining production."
- Michael Dale, BroadwayWorld.com READ FULL REVIEW

"JUST WATCHING THE EXUBERANT AND YOUTHFUL CAST BRINGING OUT THE JUICE AND THE JOY IS A JOY IN ITSELF. Making zingy lemonade out of what Broadway critics once found to be lemons, Opening Doors has proven itself with what is now a habitual way of putting a left-for-dead body’s best foot forward and making it dance.  Keeping what’s best and winking with a forgiving eye at the rest, the company embraces musicals that aren’t classics but bring them some class.  Finding some treasures in the Broadway junk heap is more than just blithely optimistic recycling, it’s a fresh look with rewarding results.  This second look at the second look at a musical whorehouse (yes, a Broadway sequel) looks great.  Thanks to a talented cast that has zip and zing, it’s lighthearted fun and well worth the re-visit.  With a truncated book, savvy director Hector Coris gets the broad strokes and the broad humor for the Broadway style broads, businessman, and buffoons working for the government.  Nutty rather than smutty or slutty, a little tacky and more than a little wacky, it’s kind of adorable and the small scale production brings out the charm factor.  With Michael Lavine’s solid musical direction/ piano accompaniment, the whore score sure does soar.   The group makes the musical play into a playground and just makes a merry, mad game of the story and the tale of troublesome taxes never becomes troubling or taxing for the audience.  But if the I.R.S. puts a tax on smiles and laughs, this would be an expensive night out. It’s a sure-as-shootin’, rootin’, tootin’, non-high-fallutin’, prostitutin’, hoot’nin’, hollerin’ good time!
- Rob Lester, Cabaret Exchange

REVIEWS FOR "FLORA THE RED MENACE "

"Fitting nine actors and a piano on the cabaret stage of The Duplex (which has only one backstage entrance/exit) is not easy feat but director Suzanne Adams and choreographer Christine Schwalenberg keep the proceedings crisp and peppy.  The strong-singing (Ray Baily is music director), enthusiastic cast is a pleasure from top to bottom.  Desiree Davar and Francis Kelly are endearingly quirky as the wide-eyed, idealistic Flora and her stuttering, Communist activist boyfriend, Harry.  Alison Renee Foster has plenty of pizzazz as the femme fatal rabble-rouser, Charlotte, while Erin West and Kevin Michael Murphy are perfectly charming as a young tap-dancing couple.  Andrew Lebon, Jillian Prefach, Buzz Roddy and Kevin Z. Wanzor are all enjoyable in their various roles."
- Michael Dale, BroadwayWorld.com

"Director Suzanne Adams and choreographer Christine Schwalenberg turned a tiny stage into a show stopping, feet tapping, razzle dazzle delight. I just wish I'd discovered these talented people sooner!
If you ever see Opening Doors, go catch it". - Eva Heinemann, Hi! Drama