Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly      MAGNIFICENT NIGHTS! YOU'LL NEED A SPACE SHUTTLE TO REACH THE HEIGHTS ATTAINED AT NIGHTS ON BROADWAY III. Charles Einstein Star Ledger      CALL IT A SMASH! A SPECTACULAR IN-WORKING OF CHOREOGRAPHY, POSSIBLY THE BEST CRESCENDO DANCE STEPS SINCE CHITA RIVERA DESCENDED ON ATLANTIC CITY A DECADE AGO! Chuck Darrow Courier Post      THE WONDERFULLY STAGED AND EXECUTED REVUE IS A GLITTERING SALUTE TO MUSICAL THEATRE SURE TO DELIGHT ANYONE WITH AN AFFINITY FOR BROADWAY! Scott Cronick Press of Atlantic City      NOT ONLY IS NIGHTS ON BROADWAY III THE BEST OF THE SERIES, IT'S THE BEST REVUE SHOW TO HIT TOWN IN QUITE AWHILE! CIULLA'S CHOREOGRAPHY IS CLEVER, INVENTIVE, AND MOST IMPORTANT, FUN! Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly      NIGHTS ON BROADWAY II IS A BLAST! Charles Einstein Star Ledger      UNDER THE METICULOUS DIRECTION OF AC CIULLA... NIGHTS ON BROADWAY II IS ONE OF ATLANTIC CITY'S MOST PLEASUREABLE FULL-CHORUS DANCE FANCIES OF RECENT MEMORY! Chuck Darrow Courier Post      CIULLA'S EYECATCHING CHOREOGRAPHY IS SHARPLY RENDERED BY A TOP-NOTCH DANCE ENSEMBLE. Scott Cronick Press of Atlantic City      CLEVER AND EXCITING CHOREOGRAPHY ...VISUALLY STUNNING! Sandy Posnak The Daily Journal      THIS SHOW IS LIKE A HAPPY PARTY COMPLETE WITH SINGING AN DANCING! Scott Cronick The Press of Atlantic City, NJ      THIS CRITIC'S FAVORITE PART OF THE SHOW WAS THE DANCE TROUPE, NOT BECAUSE OF THE SHEER BEAUTY OF ITS MEMBERS, BUT BECAUSE OF THE GREAT CHOREOGRAPHY, FLAWLESS EXECUTION AND ORIGINAL SEQUENCES... THE PRODUCERS OF THE REVUE SHOWED SOME SMARTS IN BREAKING UP THE LIBERACE ROUTINE WITH THE LOVELY LIEBOWITHZ SISTERS AND THE TREMENDOUSLY TALENTED CONFETTI DANCE COMPANY, CHOROGRAPHED AND COSTUMED BY HOSSANA DA COSTA. Ellen Burke Rawls Staten Island Sunday Advance and DigitalCity.com/atlanticity/ent      HOSSANA DA COSTA'S SIGNATURE CHOREOGRAPHY AND BRILLIANT COSTUMING COMPLIMENT DARYL'S ENERGETIC TOUR-DE-FORCE PERFORMANCE AND NOT-STOP ANTICS THAT CHARACTERIZED LIBERACE'S ORIGINAL STAGE PERFORMANCES. Pinky Kravitz Pinky's Corner, Whoot Atlantic City      WE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE TALENTED PEOPLE IN OUR ENTERTAINMENT WORLD...HOSSANA DA COSTA IS ONE FO THEM... HOSSANA IS PRESIDENT OF CONFETTI ENTERTAINMENT INC., AND THIS FORMER MODEL AND PERFORMER CURRENTLY OWNS A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY THAT CURRENTLY HAS THREE SHOWS RUNNING IN ATLANTIC CITY, "A TRIBUTE TO LIBERACE" AT HARRAH'S, "FLASHBACK" AT TRUMP PLAZA AND "RAT PACK" AT THE SANDS... HOSSANA ALSO HAS SHOWS CURRENTLY APPEARING AT ATHE GATLIN THEATRE IN MYRTLE BEACH, AND AT THE MYSTIC LAKE CASINO IN MINNESOTA... HOSSANA DA COSTA IS A NAME THAT YOU WILL SEE AS PRODUCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER OF MANY FUTURE HITS... WE ARE GLAD SUCH A COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL PRODUCER OF OUTSTANDING ENTERTAINMENT PROJECTS RESIDES AND DEVELOPS HER SHOWS IN ATLANTIC CITY... KEEP ON KEEPING ON, HOSSANA. Kappy Kapner The Outlook and Suburban Town News, NJ      NOT ONLY, IS CHOREOGRAPHER/COSTUME DESIGNER HOSSANA DA COSTA AN EYE-CATCHING BRAZILIAN BEAUTY, BUT HER COMPANY HAS THE APPEALING NAME OF CONFETTI ENTERTAINMENT, INC. THAT IS UNFORGETTABLE ONCE YOU'VE SEEN A PRODUCTION SHOW IN WHICH SHE IS INVOLVED... HOSSANA'S EXPERTISE SOON TOOK ITS PLACE AS A LEADER IN THE AREA OF CHOREOGRAPHY AND LATER AS A COSTUMER AND PRODUCER/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER... SHE BEGAN TO DESIGN HER OWN COSTUMES AND HER ABILITY AS A LEADER SOON MADE ITSLEF KNOWN IN ATLANCTIC CITY AND OTHER PLACES AROUND THE WORLD AS A SHOW PRODUCER... SHOWS IN WHICH SHE'S BEEN INVOLVED OVER TWO DECADES READS LIKE A WHO'S WHO IN THE NTERTAINMENT FIELD...INDEED, THERE'S NO STOPPING THIS YOUNG LADY WHO'S DESTINED FOR BIGGER AND FURTHER SUCCESS; IN HER FIELD OF ENDEAVORS! Sandy Posnack Whoot, Atlantic City, NJ      FLASHBACK, AN ENERGIZING REVUE HIGHLITING MUSIC FROM THE 50'S THROUGH THE 70'S... FOLLOWING THE FLASHBACK PERFORMANCE WE SPOKE TO H0SSANA DA COSTA, SHOW CHOREOGRAPHER AND COSTUMER, DA COSTA, PRESIDENT OF CONFETTI ENTERTAINMENT, A DEVONSHIRE, NJ, BASED COMPANY, IS A GRADUATE OF PHILADELPHIA'S UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS. HER OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHIC AND COSTUMING SKILLS ADD TO THE ENJOYMENT OF FLASHBACK AS WELL AS TO OTHER CURRENT ATLANTIC CITY REVUES. FLASHBACK, MEANS 75 MINUTES OF COOL SUMMER MUSIC AND FUN AT THE NEW JERSEY SHORE. Charles Einstein Star Ledger, NJ      ...AND INDEED, THERE IS MUCH TO RECOMMEND "FLASHBACK." DIRECTED BY ERIC SUNDBERG, LIT BY ROD HENRY, AND COSTUMED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY HOSSANA DA COSTA AND HER ASSISTANT, PATTIE BOSTICK (PARTICULARLY A RIP-ROARING "PEPPERMING TWIST"), THE SHOW IS A BRISKLY PACED BLEND OF REAL-TIME SKILLS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FOOTLIGHTS. Tony August Casino Confidential, NJ      LET ME BEGIN MY CRITIQUE OF "FLASHBACK"... IN TRUMP PLAZA THEATER WITH MUCH PRAISE AND "HOSSANAS" FOR COSTUME DESIGNER AND CHOREOGRAPHER, HOSSANA DA COSTA...AS FOR MS. DA COSTA, HER COSTUMES RATE WITH THE VERY BEST I'VE SEEN IN ANY REVUE, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. IN AN AGE WHERE IT'S OKAY TO LEAVE NOTHING TO THE IMAGINATION, MS. DA COSTA MANAGES TO CLAD HER SHAPELY AND LITHE DANCERS WITH JUST ENOUGH "RAGS" TO MAKE YOU WISH FOR LESS... SHE DOES HER THING WITH STYLE, FLAIR, AND IMPECCABLY GOOD TASTE. SHE HERSELF, IS FAIR OF FACE AND FORM... ALL IN ALL AN ENTERTAINING SHOW WORTH A LOOK AND CERTAILHY THE PRICE OF THE TICKET... Vincent Jackson The Press of Atlantic City, NJ      "FLASHBACK" AT TRUMP PLAZA HOTEL AND CASINO. ...FALERNE SINGS PERCY SLEDGE'S "WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN" TO A WELL-CHOREOGRAPHED NUMBER FEATURING ONE MALE AND ONE FEMALE DANCER. CHOREOGRAPHER HOSSANA DA COSTA ALSO DID A GOOD JOB WITH "PEPPERMINT TWIST" ROUTINE. Charles Einstein The Sunday Star Ledger, NJ      FLASHBACK II TAILOR-MADE TO FIT TRUMP PLAZA SHOWROOM'S STAGE... Kappy Kapner Surburban Town News, NJ      FLASHBACK II... WHICH ORIGINALLY AWED AUDIENCES AT TRUMP PLAZA LAST SPRING AND SUMMER. IT'S BACK BETTER THAN EVER STARRING SUCH WONDERFUL SINGER/DANCERS...BUT IT'S THE HARD-WORKING LEADS AND BACKUP DANCERS WHO ADD PIZZAZZ TO THE FAST-MOVING PRODUCTION. THERE ARE NUMEROUS COSTUME CHANGES, MANY OF WHICH ARE EXTREMELY COLORFUL AND I MUST COMPLIMENT HOSSANA DA COSTA OF CONFETTI ENTERTAINMENT, INC. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THECOSTUMES AND EXOTIC CHOREOGRAPHY. YOU'LL LOVE HER WORK AND THAT OF HER ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCE CAPTAIN PATTIE BOSTICK. Robert DiGiacomo The Press of Atlantic City, NJ      FRANK, DEAN AND SAMMY TOGETHER AGAIN AT THE SANDS.... IN THE COPA ROOM OF THE SANDS HOTEL & CASINO, THE RAT PACK IS HOLDING FORTH... FROM THE OPENING NUMBER, "LUCK BE A LADY," BACKED BY A RETRO SANDS SIGN ADVERTISING "A PLACE IN THE SUN," AND LEGGY SHOWGIRLS IN SILVER SEQUINED COSTUMES, THE 90-MINUTE SHOW OFFERS A SAMPLING OF THE MANY TALENTS OF THESE POP ICONS WHO DEFINED HIP TO GENERATIONS OF FANS... BACKING THEM ABLY WITH HIGH KICKS AND STYLISH CHOREOGRAPHY BY HOSSANA DA COSTA, WHO ALSO DESIGNED THE SHINY, REVEALING COSTUMES, ARE THE COPA GIRLS... Chuck Darrow Asbury Park Press, NJ      JUST KIDDING' ON THE MUSICAL MARK. IT'S BEEN AWHILE SINCE TRUMP'S CASTLE CASINO RESORT HAS HAD A WINNING REVUE IN ITS KIN'GS COURT SHOWROOM. BUT THAT LOSING STREAK HAS BEEN PUT TO REST BY THE TEAM OF BOB ANDRE AND FRANK CIRELLL.... THE DUO'S PROGRAM "JUST KIDDING" IS A BRISKLY PACED 75 MINUTES WORTH OF FIRST-RATE ENTERTAINMENT THAT SHOWCASES THE PAIR'S MANY TALENTS. THE BULK OF "JUST KIDDING" IS DEVOTED TO THE TEAM'S MUSICAL IMPERSONATIONS... AS IF THIS WEREN'T ENOUGH, A SMALL TROUPE OF DANCERS APEARS IN SEVERAL CROWD-PLEASING PRODUCTION NUMBERS...BUT ANDRE AND CIRELL ARE SO ENERGETIC AND -MORE IMPORTANT- GENUINELY FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING... TURNS OUT TO BE THE NICEST SURPRISE OF THE WINTER SEASON. Randy Alexander The New York Times, NY      IF THERE'S ANYTHING UNFORGETTABLE ABOUT TRUMP CASTLE'S "UNFORGETTABLES," IT'S RANDY ALLEN'S SIGNATURE IMPRESSION OF BETTE DAVIS...AND LEST WE NOT FORGET, ONCE AGAIN, THAT THE TRUMP'S CASTLE DANCERS REMAIN THE GREATEST DANCERS ON THE GREAT WOODEN WAY. Sandy Posnak Whoot, Atlantic City, NJ      CASTLE REVUE IS DELIGHTFULLY 'UNFORGETTABLE'... THE FUN CONTINUED FOR THE NEXT 70 MINUTES AS THE AUDIENCE ENJOYED "UNFORGETTABLES," A TRIBUTE TO LATE GREAT PERFORMERS, FEATURING IRREPROCHABLE IMPRESSIONS BY HOLLY FARIS, CLIFF LAWRENCE AND PERCY TRAVIS III. AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE CASTLE DANCERS. OOH-LA-LA! THE GLAMOUROUS SEXTET LEFT LITTLE TO THE IMAGINATION ONCE THEY SHED THEIR FEATHERS, BOAS AND OTHER ADORNEMENTS THAT BEDECKED TEIR SHAPELY FIGURES. AND THEY CAN DANCE, TOO! ... THEY WERE ACCOMPANIED BY A VERY MUCH ALIVE TRUMP CASTLE ORCHERSTRA, A PLEASANT RARITY... THE GLORIOUS COSTUMES (MOVE OVER, FREDERICK'S OF HOLLYWOOD!), DANCING, COMEDY, TOE TAPPING MUSIC AND STARS AND TUNES FROM MEMORY LANE COMBINE TO MAKE UNFORGETTABLES "UNFORGETTABLE!" Vincent Jackson The Press of Atlantic City, NJ      TRULY 'UNFORGETTABLES' STARS OF THE PAST REVIED BY TRIO OF IMPRESSIONISTS. THREE IMPRESSIONISTS BRING TO LIFE THE SPIRIT AND HUMOR OF SOME OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST BELOVED LEGENDS DRUING THE "UNFORGETTTALBES" SHOW CURRENTLY RUNNING AT TRUMP'S CASTLE... LOVINGLY EVOKE A HOST OF CELEBRITIES FROM THE PAST DRUING THIS FAS-PACED, 70 MINUTE SHOW... FARIS AND LAWRENCE DRIVE THE SHOW WITH THE BLUE HUMOR AND DOUBLE ENTENDRES THAT REDD FOXX, MAE WEST, GROUCHO MARX AND OTHERS WERE KNOWN FOR... THE TRIO WERE GIVEN TIME TO CHANGE INTO THEIR VAROUS CHARACTERS BY THE SOMETIMES SCANTILY CLAD SIX TRUMP CASTLE DANCERS.... WITH ALL THE RISQUE HUMOR, THE SHOW TIPS A TAD OVER THE TOP DURING ONE NUMBER WHEN THE DANCERS' STRATEGICALLY PLACED FLOWERS LIGHT UP OVER THE BIKINI OUTFIT... THE AWARD FOR THE MOST INGENIOUS TOUCH IN "UNFORGETTABLE" GOES TO THE PERSON WHO THOUGHT OF MAKING THE "ALL IN THE FAMILY" TV-SHOW THEME SONG, "THOSE WERE THE DAYS" INTO A SHOW TUNE-STYLE, CLOSING NUMBER, WHICH ACTUALLLY WORKS. Herb Steiner Whoot, Atlantic City, NJ      BILLY FELLOWS AND CONFETTI, LIGHT AND LIVELY SHOWBOAT REVUE... HELD OVER BY POPULARA DEMAND...FIRST SHOWBOAT REVUE PRODUCED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY HOSSANA DA COSTA WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC BY BILLY FELLLOWS...WITH THE SHOWBOAT CONFETTI DANCERS ... CHOREOGRAHED BY BRAZILIAN HOSSANA DA COSTA... SHE HAS PUT A DOUBLE OOMPH INTO THE LEGION OF FANCIFUL FOOTWORK, WITH THE LOVELY LOOKIN' LADIES WHO WEAR THEIR HEARSTRINGS ON THEIR STAGE MOVEMENTS... MS. DA COSTA GRADUATED FROM THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS...SHE HAS SINCE RECEIVED TREMENDOUS ACCREDITATON FOR THE WORK IN DANCE AND AS A PRODUCER, WHICH RESULTED IN PROVIDING MANY REVUES FOR THE CRUISE LINES. THE TWO HOMELINES CRUISE REVUES IN THE WORKS ARE "WATERCOLORS" AND "SIGNATURES." SHOWBOAT MARDI GRAS BILLY FELLLOWS'CONFETTI' REVUE EXTENDED THRU AUG. 17... ONE OF THE HOTTEST DOUBLE BILLS... ONE OF THE CLEVEREST PERFORMERS IS BILLY FELLOWS... Jack Lloyd Philadelphia Inquirer, PA      AT SHOWBOAT, A DIFFERENT SORT OF REVUE. IMRESSIONIST BILLY FELLOWS DOES HIS COMEDY ACT WITH FLAIR, AND THE 'CONFETTI' DANCERS ADD A LIVELY TOUCH... THE CONFETTI DANCERS... OPEN THE SHOW IN LIVELY FASHION WITH AN APPROPRIATELY TITLED SONG "TONIGHT AT THE MARDI GRAS" (WRITTEN BY FELLOWS). ...THIS IS A SLICK CONCEIVED PRODUCTION AND IT IS ENTERTAINING...FELLOWS, YOU SEE, IS AN IMPRESSIONIST, ONE OF THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS. Alissa Wolff The Sun, Atlantic City, NJ      ENTERTAINMENT AT SHOWBOAT...SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS AFLOAT...SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE LAVISH IN THE MARDI GRAS...FEATURINGCOMIC IMPRESSIONIST BILLY FELLOWS AND THE GLAMOROUS CONFETTI DANCERS... FELLOWS, A 30 YEAR VETERAN OF THE ATLANTIC CITY ENTERTAINMENT SCENE, JOINED FORCES WITH THE DANCING GIRLS AND BRAZILIAN-BORN CHOREOGRAPHER/PRODUCER HOSSANA DA COSTA...SLICK...A HUGE CROWD PLEASER...THE COSTUMES ARE DAZZLING, THE PACE OF THE SHOW IS SMOOTH AND, OVERALL, THIS IS AN EXCELLENT VEHICLES FOR THIS PARTICULAR MARKET... Guide Kensington/Richmond Edition, PA      BILLY FELLOWS AND CONFETTI DANCERS MINI-REVUE MOST FANTASTIC OFFERING IN ATLANTIC CITY... NOW BEING FEATURED IN THE MARDI GRAS IS COMEDY IMPRESSIONIST BILLY FELLOWS WHOT BRINGS A F RESH NEW GLOW TO AC ENTERTAINMENT SCENE...BILLY FELLOWS IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS... ADD TO THIS A TALENTED YOUNG DANCE GROUP KNOWN AS THE "CONFETTI DANCERS", A CHORUS LINE OF LOVELIES THAT ARE NOT ONLY PLEASING TO THE EYE, BUT BRING A LITTLE BIT OF BROADWAY AND SPAIN ONTO THE SCENE IN OUTSTANDING DANCE NUMBERS BRILLIANTLY COHOREOGRAPHED BY HOSSANA DA COSTA, BRAZILIAN-BORN BLONDE BEAUTY WHO ALSO PRODUCES THE FELLOWS SHOW. COMBINE BILLY FELLOWS AND THE "CONFETTI" DANCERS AND YOU HAVE ONE OF THE MOST ENTERTAINING MINI REVUES ON THE ATLANTIC CITY SCENE... Staff Reports Hammonton News, NJ      ATLANTIC CITY, THE ENTHUSIASTIC AND ENERGETIC PERFORMANCES WHICH DELIGHTED AUDIENCES THROUGHOUT THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1998 MAKE A WELCOMED RETURN TO THE TRUMP PLAZA THEATER WITH "FLASHBACK II." BOLDER, MORE EXCITING AND BETTER THAN EVER... IF YOU GO: "FLASHBACK II" DELIVERS A POWEFUL PUNCH OF ENERGY AND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE TRUMP PLAZA THEATRE. MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.