Reviews
"A Little Night Music"
The finest singing in the show comes from - no surprise - the redoubtable baritone Randall Dodge, creating some egotistically macho fun in the role of Charlotte's wayward aristocratic husband, Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, the trigger-happy military nemesis of poor Egerman. With a full vocal talent like Dodge, the modern vice of miking becomes absurd, and it's a wonder his rich ringing voice didn't blow out the circuits on the unnecessary amplifiers.
- G.Weinberg-Harter
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"Annie Get Your Gun"
Though it's clearly Annie's show, Randall Dodge more than holds his own as Annie's love interest and fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler. With a gleaming smile and a cocky but easygoing demeanor, he's a strong, commanding baritone in the tradition of Howard Keel and Gordon MacRae, with a comic flair that complements Malone's nicely. Their duet "Anything You Can Do" garners the expected laughs, and Berlin's contrapuntal masterpiece (from the master of counterpoint himself), "An Old Fashioned Wedding," is a gem in their capable hands that almost seems to deserve more than just a single encore. And the romantic chemistry between them in some of the book scenes is such that when Dodge rushes to kiss Malone for the first time, the stage seemed ready to ignite...
- Frankie Moran - San Diego.com
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"Beauty & the Beast"
Randall Dodge, in a hilarious re-creation of his role at Moonlight Stage Productions a few years back). With his slicked-back hair, constant posing and ego as big as all outdoors, he's mobbed by the other village girls and just can't fathom Belle's lack of interest. Dodge nearly steals the show as the revolting Gaston.
- Jean Lowerison - GLT
Randall Dodge nearly walks away with the show as the boorish, square-chinned villain Gaston. With his stiff-legged peacock strut, giddy self-absorption, spot-on comic timing and big baritone singing voice, Dodge's Gaston is so delightfully naughty you'll be sorry when he gets his comeuppance in the end.
Dodge has a knack for these preening, macho characters (he was the pompous Sergius in Moonlight's "Arms and the Man," and he'll play the vain Pirate King in Moonlight's upcoming "Pirates of Penzance").
His delicious performance here is far superior to that of the Gastons who've visited San Diego in national tours.
- PAM KRAGEN - Staff Writer North County Times
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"The Secret Garden"
Person for person, the new cast boasts some of the strongest musical theater artists in the county. David S. Humphrey playing the grief-struck, hunchbacked Archibald joins baritone Randall Dodge as his calculating brother Neville in the show's most glorious song, "Lily's Eyes"; despite a bit of strain, their account of this soaring male duet rivals the beautiful blendings of Bizet's iconic duet in the "The Pearl Fishers."
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"The Pirates of Penzance"
Randall Dodge as the Pirate King with terrific timing, creativity, and physical comedy.
Randall enlivens the entire stage and up the side of the wall and down into the pit, the latter resulting in a dynamic duel with orchestra conductor.
- Rob Hopper San Diego Playbill
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"The Fantastics"
As El Gallo, Randall Dodge's closing scene with Louisa, taking her innocence with conflicting emotions of duty and regret, is masterfully performed.
Randall's rich baritone voice sings a beautiful rendition of the show's most popular tune, Try to Remember.
- Rob Hopper San Diego Playbill
Reeves cast the tall, dark and Hollywood-handsome Randall Dodge, from San Diego, as the narrator/manipulator El Gallo; he is the honey-voiced pro with a wealth of training and experience.
- Gary Walker - The Desert Sun - October 12, 2005
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"Story Theatre"
Randall Dodge as an Arnold Schwarzenegger-ish Cocky-locky who is chasing the skirt of the sexy Goosey-poosey (Laura Bozanich). Jonathan Scott Meza is the crafty Foxy-woxy who uses their fears to lure them into his foxhole. The whole skit is a riot that, on the day I went, got capped off by one of the best adlibs I've seen. After Fox-woxy stuffed the second bird through the arch of black boxes marking the entrance of his foxhole, the boxes in the center slipped down. Unable to slide back through the fallen arch, he said he needed someone strong to help him re-open his foxhole. Naturally Randall Dodge, as the Schwarzenegger Cocky-locky, made a big show as he stepped in to help, claiming that he was fixing California one foxhole at a time!
- Rob Hopper - San Diego Playbill
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"How to Succeed in Business without really Trying"
The show also boasts some fine ensemble work including the outrageous personnel manager Bratt (Randall Dodge) who goes more than a little nuts over Hedy and who also, on the night that I went, did some quick thinking to save a scene when a technical glitch threatened to bring things to a halt, earning him a huge ovation.
- Rob Hopper - San Diego Playbill
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"No Way to Treat a Lady"
Randall Dodge portrays Kit as a suave charmer who seems to fancy himself the next Errol Flynn.
Dodge's deep voice and actorly flourishes suit Kit's overdeveloped sense of the dramatic. "Only a Heartbeat Away," Kit's double-entendre duet with one of his marks, are among the funniest. It's not easy turning homicide into comedy, but say this about "Lady": It kills.
- James Hebert - ARTS WRITER S.D. Union Tribune
Simas has cast award-winning Moonlight veteran Randall Dodge in the shape-shifting Steiger role as the murderer, along with Susan Denaker as his various victims.
And in the role of Kit Gill, the protean and literal ladykiller, the personally magnetic Randall Dodge generates nearly enough energetic fun to make this whole contraption work. Among Dodge's considerable gifts is a large, delectable, ringing baritone voice, unfortunate for the listeners, nowhere in Cohen's musical score has Dodge's character been given any moments worthy of this singer's vocal art.
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"Thoroughly Modern Millie
'Thoroughly' enjoyable at Moonlight
Randall Dodge and Sarah Elizabeth Combs are a hoot in their love-at-first-sight "Falling in Love" duet; his rich baritone and her silvery, stratospheric soprano fill the night air with a beautiful hilarity. And in "Speed Test," a patter song become dictation, Dodge whizzes along without losing articulation.
- Anne Marie Welsh - THEATER CRITIC August 25, 2006
The show is filled with a fantastic array of supporting characters led by Millie's boss Trevor Graydon, and Randall Dodge is in top form with his hilarious portrayal of the stiff but quirky Graydon, using his deep but nimble voice to make The Typing Test scene a hit, and using his physical comedy to become a boy who is hopelessly and hysterically in love with Millie's friend, the beautiful Miss Dorothy Brown.
- Robb Hopper - San Diego Playbill
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"The Most Happy Fella" at Moonlight at the Avo
Randall Dodge plays the ever imminently departing foreman Joe with immense rakish charm, and can sing "Joey, Joey, Joey" so richly as to give listeners goose bumps.
- George Weinberg-Harter
Awards & Recognition
Patte Award "Outstanding Performance"
- No Way To Treat a Lady
Patte Award "Outstanding Performance"
- The Pirates of Penzance
Critics Circle Craig Noel Award
"Outstanding Featured Performance"
- The Pirates of Penzance & Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Robby Award "Best Supporting Performance"
- Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Playbill Award "Outstanding Performance"
- The Pirates of Penzance
Robby Award "Supporting Performance"
- Arms and the Man
Lawrence Langner Speech Scholarship Recipient