During the 1970's and early 80's, Mr. Shaw played with bands for the Broadway shows "Bubbling Brown Sugar" and "Ain't Misbehaving." He said in an interview with Newsday last year that he wou…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMLyricist Craig Carnelia on Imaginary Friends
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMCabaret perennial Steve Ross blooms in a new venue.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThere's a reading this week of Gold!, the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman-Harold Prince musical scheduled to play Chicago's Goodman Theatre in June. In addition to the participation of previou…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMFor those who found Jekyll & Hyde too intellectually challenging, Dance of the Vampires may be just the thing. A bona fide Eurotrash bonanza, Vampires would surely have been wiser to unpack …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMThis Dance will appeal only to the most die-hard lovers of inadvertent camp - provided they bring plenty of Excedrin and don't eat too much beforehand.
Linked From USA Today at 12:00AMIt is my sad duty to report that, although the writing is amateurish and vulgar, the music mindless and the acting - for the most part - ludicrously broad, "Vampires" does not reach the "Car…
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMCould this have worked in a scaled-down version in some off-Broadway hole in the wall? I don't think so; it's not even kitschy-funny. As it is, the only chills aroused by "Vampires" come in …
Linked From Washington Post at 12:00AMOH Buffy, you Vampire Slayer - where were you when we needed you? There are altogether far too many vapid vampires in the new musical "Dance of the Vampires," which opened at the Minskoff Th…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMThey have unleashed an expensive, more than $10 million musical of mind-numbing silliness, a show that wastes its performers, most notably Michael Crawford, and dazes audiences who have to s…
Linked From story.news.yahoo.com at 12:00AMThe show has a peasant ensemble number about garlic that, except for it being a joke, could be compared in tastelessness with the pig-blood dance from the infamous "Carrie" musical. There is…
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 12:00AMA fine line divides satire and plagiarism, and "Dance of the Vampires" crosses it all too often.
Linked From www.ctnow.com at 12:00AMBut, for the most part, it's Halloween at the Minskoff in the sense that the show is full of tricks and treats.
They (mostly) like it! Wow!
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMIt's been a few years since I've seen "A Christmas Carol" at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, and I have to admit I had forgotten how beguiling Alan Menken's music for it is.
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 12:00AMBaz Luhrmann's 'La Bohème' is a tale told with wit, stagecraft and chutzpah, but musically it's underpowered.
Linked From www.calendarlive.com at 12:00AM"La Bohème," the Australian director Baz Luhrmann's hipster take on the Puccini opera, burst out at the box office after opening to strong reviews.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMThe weather may have been frigid yesterday, but the box office was hot at the Broadway Theatre after "La Bohème," Baz Luhrmann's version of the venerable opera, opened Sunday to rave reviews.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMNEW YORK (Variety) - "La Boheme" is just the beginning. Having won over the Broadway critics with his opera production, Baz Luhrmann is now set to direct two more theater shows.
Linked From story.news.yahoo.com at 12:00AMHigher tix prices cited in non-holiday mark
Broadway's 34 shows set a non-holiday record of $17,500,645 last week, which retired the old one of $16,068,527 from April 9-15, 2000, when there were 36 productions on the boards. No surprise: Higher ticket prices had much to do with that $17.5 million take.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMTrio reteams as 'Couple' goes German
Felix und Oskar? German helmer Doris Dorrie ("Naked") has reteamed with veteran thesps Heiner Lauterbach and Uwe Ochsenknecht for a Teutonic take on Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple."
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMMusical to premiere in Buenos Aires in April
Soccer superstar Diego Maradona is about to follow his countrywoman Eva Peron as the inspiration for a legit musical.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMA Musical Role Turns an Actor's Life Upside Down
Linked From Washington Post at 12:00AM"La Boheme": Sexy cast with classically trained voices, so even die-hard opera queens can't whine too much. Luhrmann's fluid direction and wife Catherine Martin's luscious Parisian sets and …
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMMichael Ross, Center Stage's managing director, is back in Baltimore, trumpeting the theater's unifying power
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