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Friday, April 15, 2011

Review - Hair Tour in Boston (and Back on Broadway) by Ccaggiano

A few days ago, the good folks at the Public Theater announced that the national tour of Hair, currently wending its way across the country, would settle onto Broadway this summer for a ten-…

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:08PM

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro - A Staged Reading by Ccaggiano

Each semester for the past two school years, I've used the students in my musical-theater history class as academic guinea pigs, as it were, and put on a staged reading of a historically imp…

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 09:07AM

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Review - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (But With Daniel Radcliffe) by Ccaggiano

OK, let's get to the burning questions right up front: Can Daniel Radcliffe sing? Yes. His intonation is spot-on, although he did have trouble sustaining some of the longer notes. Can Daniel…

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 11:12PM

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Review - The Book of Mormon on Broadway by Ccaggiano

Is The Book of Mormon the funniest musical ever? Well, I've only been attending musicals for the past 33 years, so I can only speak from that experience. But I will say it's one of the most …

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 09:40PM

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Review - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on Broadway by Ccaggiano

Yet another entry in the movies-into-musicals genre opens tonight on Broadway, and this one actually makes sense, at least on paper. The 1994 breakout Australian hit "The Adventures of Prisc…

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 09:20PM

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Review - Prometheus Bound at the A.R.T. by Ccaggiano

Pardon me if I start with a wee digression here, but I happen to be personally acquainted with a couple of the cast members of the new musical Prometheus Bound, which is currently running at…

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 10:37PM

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Review - Spider-Man on Broadway by Ccaggiano

OK, I think it's time to explain my relative silence on the whole Spider-Man fiasco. Last September, I was admitted into the Outer Critics Circle, an august organization of theater writers w…

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 11:21AM

Monday, March 14, 2011

The Most Underrated Musical - Spring 2011 by Ccaggiano

Ah, spring break. Time for me to catch up on some long-overdue blogging. Towards the start of each semester, the students in my musical-theater history course at the Boston Conservatory emba…

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 03:26PM

Review - La Cage with Harvey Fierstein but not Jeffrey Tambor by Ccaggiano

The sheer number of new musicals and revivals opening this spring in New York is fairly daunting. Don't get me wrong: more shows is certainly better than fewer. But my full-time schedule of …

SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:20PM

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